Apparently the drug dogs that sniff your car and get all excited when they smell your dope are not so good. Or maybe too good? “A Tribune analysis of three years of data for suburban departments found that only 44 percent of those alerts by the dogs led to the discovery of drugs or paraphernalia. For Hispanic drivers, the success rate was just 27 percent.” To be fair to the dogs, the Chicago Tribune is working off some fairly lousy data here — the Chicago PD and the Illinois State Police don’t even collect data, apparently, about drug dog alerts. But going through suburban police departments in Illinois, they found things like this: “The McHenry County’s sheriff’s department had the most dog alerts, finding drugs or paraphernalia in 32 percent of 103 searches. In the eight searches on Hispanic drivers, officers reported finding drugs just once…. In Naperville, 47 percent of searches turned up drugs or paraphernalia, though searches on Hispanic drivers turned up drugs in only one of 12 traffic stops, for a rate of 8 percent.” Man, do not bother with the Hispanics, they keep their dope at home, they’re not stupid.