You explain that these are white crumbs from a pastry you've been eating,
but he suspects the crumbs are crack cocaine and performs a field drug test.
HE PULLS OUT A SMALL PLASTIC POUCH CONTAINING A PINK LIQUID. If the liquid turned blue, it meant that the test results were positive for an illegal substance
Many field drug test kits use cobalt thiocyanate, a chemical compound that turns from pink to blue when it is exposed to cocaine — but also when it is exposed to more than 80 other compounds, most of which are perfectly legal
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“Police officers arrest more than 1.2 million people a year in the United States on charges of illegal drug possession. Field tests…help them move quickly from suspicion to conviction.”
— New York Times
YOU ARE UNABLE TO BE APPROVED AS A RENTER ANYWHERE. ALL YOU CAN DO IS MINIMUM WAGE WORK WITH NO POSSIBILITY FOR PROMOTION. YOU CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE TO GET BACK ON YOUR FEET.
Over 250 drug convictions have been overturned in Houston; there were a total of 416 documented discrepancies in evidence between 2004 and 2015.
But so much damage has already been done — and all because of a cheap drug test kit known to produce false positives.
Despite their inaccuracy, field test kits have a 95% conviction rate and continue to be used by police and prosecutors across the country to wrongfully jail innocent people.
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