Argumentative Essay: Do Dogs Investigate A Crime?

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Throughout most of history humans have used all sorts of domesticated animals in many ways. As of now Police departments and other law enforcements used dogs which are known as Bloodhounds to help investigate a crime scene. People are putting forth an argument that dogs now are unreliable and sometimes get innocent people locked up for crimes they haven’t done and that we shouldn’t use dogs anymore to investigate crimes. Well humans have used dogs for many years for hunting, gathering and saving lives of humans due to their keen sense of smell. We shouldn’t just let the advantage we have with dogs go to waste. Sure, dogs may mess up at a crime scene of murder but, they don’t mess up in finding bombs, narcotics or even humans that are in trouble with no way to call for help. Dogs may have messed up in the past but, maybe we were using them for the wrong type of crime.

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Some investigations led to innocent people being wound up in jail. The man eventually got out and won over 1.7 million dollars. This not only ended in the dog being fired but, the government/police enforcement losing tons of money. As well as in a case with a rape victim a dog wound up getting a man in jail who never even committed the crime and got a rape conviction on his profile. Now dogs have messed up in the past but, quote “They are fallible, just like a person.” Maybe we are just using dogs in a wrong way. We shouldn’t let dogs help in a murder case or a rape case but, for cases such as search and rescue or alarm the police of people with illegal substances. Or if the police are adamant about using dogs in such cases they should be a little lenient on the suspect since dogs are known to make mistakes and not send the suspect to prison

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