Police storm school with 14 drug dogs, find nothing but scared students.

[Jesus Malverde]

K-9 school drug sweep yields no arrests, no illegal substances

A drug sweep of the high school, and Wareham Cooperative School by 14 police K-9s from throughout the area Tuesday turned up no arrests and no illegal substances.

Five “indications” of illegal drugs were logged, which could mean a scent of an illegal substance was detected or an amount was detected too negligible to warrant police action.

Acting Police Chief Kevin Walsh said the search was conducted with full School Dept. cooperation, and the results were positive.

“We’re very pleased,” he said.


http://www.wickedlocal.com/wareham/news/education/x1275640613/K-9-school-drug-sweep-yields-no-arrests-or-illegal-substances

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Didn't get to shoot or arrest anyone, but still dress up and act like storm-troopers. Day not wasted

[aptal]

2. Welcome to the police state the Rethugs have created!

It's gotten better under Obama but I saw the slow rise of it during the Bush years and these are the consequences of it. Hopefully we can fix our legal system from crap like this happening.

[KG]

3. but, but we don't live in police state!

[onethatcares]

4. I guess

it was just a low crime day so there was no reason to not search an entire high school for some pot.

The chief probably meant he was very pleased everyone was cowed into submission. Maybe the chief should get his drug dogs and

druggie police to search the school department members homes. Good for goose, good for gander, I say.

[FreakinDJ]

9. That would be interesting

[icymist]

5. So these are random searches that the school conducts?

<snip>
the searches are conducted multiple times per year and that there would be another conducted this year at some point.

14 Dogs needed to search students randomly?

[Jesus Malverde]

8. here it's described in 2011

On Thursday morning, February 17, 2011, the Wareham Police Department continued Operation Safe Streets with a search for illegal drugs at Wareham High School. At 9:30 a.m., Wareham High School Principal Scott Palladino instructed school staff to secure the students at which time Wareham school officials, Wareham police officers and sixteen K9 units from around the state began a search that also included the Wareham Cooperative School and the adjacent parking lots.

In all, eleven students were issued Wareham town bylaw citations for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. Parents of the students were notified about the $100 citation and their legal responsibilities.

The search ended around 10:45 a.m. and all students were cooperative, according the Wareham police.

http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2011/02/20/19123-wareham-continues-operation-safe-streets-school-and-motel-search

[joeybee12]

6. What a fucked up world this has become...nt

[Blue Owl]

7. What, no forced butt probes? What kinda country is this?

[Electric Monk]

10. LOL, a PETA poster is traumatic so let's ban those, but this is A-OK. Fucked up. nt

[Blue_Tires]

11. I remember a search in the 7th grade (middle+high school)

We had to sit and wait at our desks while the dogs sniffed out all the lockers...

When the search was over and the cops left I went to my locker to see the dog had bitten two sizeable holes in my sweater and I had to donate it to goodwill...

[Dawson Leery]

12. Worthless thugs.

Their pensions are bankrupting Nassau and Suffolk Counties in NY.