Police dogs trained to sniff out electronic devices storing child porn, other illegal items

Police dogs trained to sniff out electronic devices storing child porn, other illegal items
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Selma, a black Labrador, and Thoreau, a golden Labrador, may have flunked out of guide dog school, but they've found their calling as crime fighters.

The pair couldn't cut it in New York City's Guiding Eyes for the Blind program, so instead they have been trained to help investigators find electronic devices that might store things like child pornography or fake documents, Bloomberg reports.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.