ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Busted Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them? by Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,…
Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them? Because conservatives have turned ‘criminal justice’ into something that’s just criminal. We used to call it extortion. For people of color, it has the added Republican benefit of being legalized terrorism.