One day last December, a Brooklyn prosecutor called the Police Department laboratory to check on a test of drugs that had been seized six weeks earlier. The drugs were nowhere to be found in the laboratory. As officials hunted for the evidence in that case, they made a startling discovery: The drugs seized in 42 other arrests made in Brooklyn that same day, Oct. 20, 2006, also had vanished without a trace. In short, all the evidence from every narcotics arrest in Brooklyn that day was gone. (New York Times, Wednesday)
Another day in the war on drug makers and consumers.
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The Drug War's Assault on Liberty by Lance Lamberton