you are really indoctrinated. cops pull people over and test anything that looks weird to them...like DONUT SUGAR.
Orlando cop who mistook doughnut glaze for drugs is disciplined
The
Orlando police officer who arrested a man after mistaking
doughnut glaze on his floorboard for amphetamine has been disciplined for making a false arrest.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins didn’t mean to do any harm, the Orlando Police Department concluded. She just didn’t know how to use the department-issued drug test kits.
The department had never trained her or anyone else on how to use them, according to Deputy Chief Orlando Rolon. In 2015, OPD bought 81 of the kits, the agency reported. In 2016 it bought 350.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...-for-meth-cop-disciplined-20170209-story.html
Houston Police End Use of Drug Tests That Helped Produce Wrongful Convictions
The cheap kits were often the sole evidence used to win guilty pleas, against the innocent as well the as guilty.
The Houston Police Department has ended its longstanding practice of using $2 chemical kits to make drugs arrests, a policy that had contributed to hundreds of wrongful convictions in recent years.
The field tests have been used by police departments across the country for decades. Officers simply drop
a suspicious substance into a pouch of chemicals and use supposedly telltale changes in color to make arrests for cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and other illegal drugs. But virtually everyone in the criminal justice system – prosecutor, judges, lab scientists, defense lawyers – has had plenty of reason to know the tests are faulty. Courts in most states, in fact, bar the tests from being used in evidence in a criminal trial, saying the tests do not constitute forensic science.
In Scandal’s Wake, Police Turn to Quick, Cheap Test for Drugs
But
forensics experts say too many other substances — Tylenol PM, for example — can test positive for illegal drugs like cocaine. The District Attorney’s Office said that prosecutors often ordered further testing to confirm results, but that suspects might accept plea agreements based only on presumptive testing. Even if a person admits guilt, defense lawyers said they worried about the precedent of plea agreements negotiated without the kind of thorough analysis that would serve as proof of a crime.