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.
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http://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives
https://www.propublica.org/article/unreliable-and-unchallenged
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