Police field tests for illegal drugs are garbage. They misidentify common substances as contraband. No wonder the police often find out they were mistaken.
“Police field tests for illegal drugs are garbage. They misidentify common substances as contraband. No wonder the police often find out they were mistaken.”
And I bet they refuse to document the reliability of the tests. Same as the drug sniffing dogs. They don’t want to document and show the truth, that it is BS. The actually value would fall well under any concept of probable cause if the truth was accepted.
Same thing with SWAT. A state had to ORDER their police to track SWAT use, reasons, accuracy, convictions, etc. Why? Because cops know that people would balk at SWAT raids because far too many end in crap like this story here.