Comments on: Final Totals: Little Found During Daily Drug Dog Searches In Escambia County Schools

By: Bogia

Bogia — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:19:19 +0000

This is great news, but be aware, those dogs don’t smell pills. Which is what the kids are getting these days!!! Don’t be fooled.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:56:12 +0000

blame the dogs

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:24:54 +0000

Maybe the low count of alerts indicates a poor detection rate by the dogs.

By: bratt

bratt — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:39:32 +0000

Everybody knows kids bring drugs to school…..they did wen I was goen to school n tha kids would go crazy wen they thought tha teachers er principle was on to em. I thank tha dogs was a good thangs……its better than putn a shrimp on a treadmill

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:32:00 +0000

REGARDING:
“what kids learned was to carry their drugs on their person as they could not be searched”

Actually, people can be searched with probable cause. A drug dog triggering on someone would give probable cause to assume the presence of drugs. If drug dogs didn’t……

David ranting

By: Molino-Anon

Molino-Anon — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:17:46 +0000

HUGE waste of tax dollars over so few finds within the school system. They’d have better luck standing outside the door at Chuck E Cheese with the drug dog.

By: parent

parent — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:37:15 +0000

what kids learned was to carry their drugs on their person as they could not be searched

By: Oversight

Oversight — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:19:49 +0000

REGARDING David Huie Green’s rant: “It’s like my elephant repellant. It seems to work because I haven’t seen any elephants. Would I have seen any if I didn’t have it? Obviously.”

What David proposes is common knowledge because there are no elephants in NorthEscambia; however, illicit drugs are everywhere and they impact all levels of the socioeconomic spectrum.

Elephant repellant would not be money well spent well here, but in some parts of Africa and Asia that might be a different story. On the other hand, drug detecting dogs might and probably do act as a deterrent for students in their decision making process.

Kudos to the school district for taking a proactive approach to an actual problem and not putting their heads in the sand and purchasing something ludicrous like elephant repellant.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:58:40 +0000

They most likely had smoked it on the way to school.

By: Mike P

Mike P — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:45:19 +0000

You need to run for school board!