There has to be more to the story than just finding a tab of LSD and giving it to an undercover (no matter the circumstances). The DA should not have even prosecuted that or at the very least got that guy into an early offender program.
But on the flip side, many here have no idea how quickly they can get caught up with “the law” and how it can turn your life upside down. It used to be said that ignorance is no excuse but today? There are so many damn “laws” and ordinances its damn near impossible to go through a day without breaking something. They’ll learn, eventually however when the badge they worship turns on them (and no, I don’t think every cop is like that, but every cop knows they have some really bad seeds within their ranks; they need to start sounding off more and drop that blue steel curtain)
It was a small college town in Oklahoma in the 1980s. There were a lot of arrests and prosecutions that were way out of line. I knew another guy who did six months in county lockup for having two marijuana roaches in his ashtray at a traffic stop.
Small town police in the south taught me to be very wary of law enforcement, because they can have a chip on their shoulder and want to make examples or go straight for revenue like pulling you over and ticketing you for what they claim was three miles an hour over their speed trap limits, when the car I had said I was two miles under. There are bad seeds and assholes in all walks of life, and police are no exception. They have the power to ruin your day or a lot more if they decide to do so. The majority of the run-ins I’ve had with cops have been positive, but by no means have they all been.