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Old Jun 23, 2016, 8:56 am
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Originally Posted by Section 107
That's because they function differently....

The dogs and machines do their jobs very well; that they are not capable of applying judgment and discretion in these matters does not mean they are useless.
We can still go back to how many alarms/alerts there are and how many times those alarms result in finding contraband.

If the number of alarms vs contraband found is near zero then a case can be made that those detection methods are looking for the wrong things.
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