The New York Times reported in 2011 that a Brooklyn detective was convicted of planting evidence on a man and woman, and faced up to four years in prison. This is an example of the "anything goes" attitude of law enforcement drug units. The original article can be found here.
It is important to ask ourselves how safe is this really making our society? Would it not make more sense to treat addiction as a public health issue rather than a crime? It is doubtful, with our ever present police culture in the U.S., that this will ever happen.
Law enforcement is able to release statistics of arrests that make it seem that they are taking violent criminals off the streets, but how many of these "violent criminals" were one time drug offenders, or even worse completely innocent?
The best way to protect yourself is to know your rights. This link will take you to a legal resource for how to handle wrongful incarceration.
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A Surprising Statistic
This statistic was used in a MSNBC report on a stop and frisk case.
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