Why didn't she have a lawyer? No one with a lawyer would be there for 5 months for a false positive. Of course these test kits have false positives but think about the alternative. In the alternative the cop would have said they were OxyContin and then arrested he for it. Without the field tests they would just arrest everyone, with the tests they can let some people go. Getting rid of the tests would not result in any fewer arrests, it would result in more.
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She could only afford a public defender from what I understand, and they work for the state so they cant be trusted.
The point is that that there shouldnt be field tests and there shouldnt be drug prohibition. I see the flimsy tests as another case against the drug war entirely, these cops shouldnt even have the right to search peoples cars in the first place.
Public defenders usually suck just because they are not very good lawyers and are not well paid. Good lawyers don't mess with being prosecutors or public defenders, not when they can make hundreds of dollars an hour in private practice.
So if there were no field tests do you imagine they would just let people go when they find suspicious pills or powders?
Obviously not, they would arrest all of them, with the field tests they can let some people go.
she gave them permission.
Of course the problem is prohibition, doing away with field tests won't fix that, it can only result in more people being arrested who should not be.
I watch live PD, those tests keep people from being arrested all the time. I saw a funny one recently where the kid had a little baggie of sea salt in his wallet or pocket, they were able to test it and determine it was not drugs so he didn't get in trouble for that.
sadly most soccer moms out there are dumb enough to trust the cops and consent to a search lol
most people think they are required to allow cops to search just by them asking
Even in cases where people refuse they many times go ahead and search anywway...but the point still remains, going around searching people should not on their agenda at all..whether they ask or not
Ignorance of the law is no defense.
But in cases where you refuse and are searched anyways it is easy to beat the case. As long as drugs are prohibited they will have an agenda of finding them during traffic stops. We don't have protection from any and all searches, we have protection from unreasonable searches.
I feel like your missing a much larger & far more important point in all of this. Cops are criminal coward enforcers for fictitious "law" dreamed up by a kakistocracy of people who have no more of a claim to your property or life than you do. If you are not damaging someone, their property or defaulting on a consensual contract then you are not a criminal & it's no one's business what you have or what you're doing. It's the cops & their corporate masters in the halls of "government" that are in the wrong here. The war on drugs is a crime against humanity...a war crime. The Perpetrators should answer for their crimes. The false belief in conscripted authority is another crime against the inhabitants of this planet. There's much more to say on this but, I'll have to leave it there for now. I hoped this helped.
I am not sure what led you to believe I supported the prohibition of drugs. The cops don't make the law, change the law and make drugs and guns legal for everyone and then they would never have need to search anyone who was not a murderer, thief, rapist or what have you. Then we would need a lot fewer cops and there would be far fewer bad cops and much less harassment. If a young black man can have a bag of weed in his car and a pistol then the cops don't really have a reason to bother him in most cases. Do you ever watch Live PD?
I don't want to watch the crimes of the cowardly police. I have no interest in seeing the subjugation & victimizing of my brothers & sisters. It hurts me when I've seen those types of shows in passing. "Far fewer cops"...there should be 0, that's zero, cops. All order followers must be shamed for their pretending to abdicate their personal responsibility for their actions. That is evil & they're acting like dogs..that's what their masters call them anyway. You're justifying the whore-able actions of the police as if their just doing their jobs. That gave me the feeling of you being sympathetic to the prohibition..sorry.