Originally Posted by
English Noodles
Originally Posted by
kingwilly
Originally Posted by
BobR
than this against police misconduct,
woooah, some hyperbole there.
In what way did the police act inappropriately ?
Three positive tests, doesnt equal police misconduct, it just means the tests were flawed.
Maybe police incompetence in that case.
Incompetence or misconduct are similar in this case, the truth is that police are generally lowly educated people of mediocre mentality who have inflated egos and inflated beliefs of self-importance. They have no business conducting complex scientific tests they barely understand, and causing harm to someone by performing such a test incompetently is misconduct. Either way she should be entitled to massive compensation for her trauma stress and violations of her rights. Other defendants in her lawsuit may include the company that made the police test kits, and any other entity that was involved. Additionally, if they were not sure she had drugs, did they really need to arrest her? Perhaps a more reasonable approach would have been to simply take her passport and defer an arrest pending the results of testing by a qualified chemist.
It's also worth considering that someone who smuggles drugs is not nearly as much of a danger to society as some who smuggles explosives, so perhaps the police should have less discretion when dealing with possible drugs. Police litigation was one of my areas of concentration when I was an attorney.
In any event, steps should be taken to assure no one else ever has to endure this mistreatment.