#75: False Positives & User Error in Roadside Drug Tests

In this episode, I take a look at rapid (roadside) drug tests which are often used as probable cause for arrest. Police make up to 100k arrests every year using Roadside Drug tests with a failure rate high enough to require lab tests for validation of every charge in most jurisdictions. But even though you can't convict someone based on a rapid roadside test, you can arrest them and keep them locked up until they can pay the ransom or do the time. And you can use the roadside results to press...