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The Case of Junk Science - Roadside Drug Test Evidence
📻 Episode #167
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 28, 2020
About This Episode
Josh Dubin examines Roadside Drug Testing with Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Senior Policy Fellow.
The Case
Josh Dubin examines Roadside Drug Testing with Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Senior Policy Fellow.
Faulty tests, which cost police departments $2 a piece or less, are widely used across the United States, causing countless people to plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit, despite scientific evidence that proves just how ineffective they really are.
http://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-field-test-is-fail-safe-meet-the-chemist-behind-houston-police-drug-kits
https://www.propublica.org/article/unreliable-and-unchallenged
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:07“Speaker 1: idea here. I don't have drugs in my car. I Speaker 1: don't do drugs. I've never done drugs. One officer walks Speaker 1: over to you and then takes you to the police car. Speaker 1: The other one opens up the trunk. He takes out Speaker 1: something that looks like a zip lock baggie, then walks”
00:16:56“Speaker 2: temperature changes different things, the chemicals might expired within them. Speaker 2: There's a lot of different ways that this can go wrong. Speaker 2: But even if you do everything correctly, everything right, the Speaker 2: officer has been properly trained and he's one of the Speaker 2: best you know at actually utilizing this he was a”
00:26:37“Speaker 2: com and then you have to pay to get it Speaker 2: off of there. And so you know, I'm sure if Speaker 2: you looked up Amy Albritton and criminal history on a Speaker 2: lot of these different sites, you probably still see that Speaker 2: she was arrested, charge and convicted for drug possession. And”
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