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by MertsA 2498 days ago
What's especially sad is that there have been cases in Florida that were tied back to officers thinking that a negative test meant that it contained cocaine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside...

>When we examined the department’s records, they showed that officers, faced with somewhat ambiguous directions on the pouches, had simply misunderstood which colors indicated a positive result.