New Jersey Crime Lab Tech Suspended For Falsifying Test Results, Blows 7,800+ Cases

[knucklehead bob]

A New Jersey Crime Lab technician was suspended with pay, after he was found writing down results of suspected marijuana, before the tests were even completed, throwing 7,827 criminal cases into doubt, damaging confidence in the workings of that state’s criminal justice system.

 

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/02/new-jersey-lab-technician-suspended-falsifying-test-results/

[imiubu]

Suspended with pay?  No charges filled ?  wtf?

[Smallbiz]

How about a state initiative to stop this no charges with pay bs it's sick.

[medmanmike]

It happens like this all over, I guess. This is why fully legal is the only real option; anything else leaves all the room needed for abuse and waste.

Zap, what's the status with Komorm's et all actions against the MSP lab? Anything going on?

[trichcycler]

How about a state initiative to stop this no charges with pay bs it's sick.

all those smack happy cops would explode if you took their sit at home till we say so money

[t-pain]

Suspended with pay?  No charges filled ?  wtf?

remember its chris christies state. he doesnt care about justice, just making sure marijuana is illegal and you go to jail for marijuana.

[zaphod]

all those smack happy cops would explode if you took their sit at home till we say so money

It'd be nice to get them to implode, less costly clean-up.

[garyfisher]

The police need to give up their fight against weed.  Go after real criminals.  Real crime has victims.  Oh, real police work is much too hard and dangerous than stealing from citizens because of a plant.

[trichcycler]

Those that direct the police have been consistent in their orders concerning cannabis users and cultivation. They need to be replaced.

[Alphabob]

Many of these crime labs receive kickbacks from convictions or lab results that pay the bills and many of the lab techs creating the most crimes get raises or promotions. This is just the tip of the problem where many courts and police departments run off kickbacks from convictions and arrests. Many of the prosecutors and police departments financially benefit from civil forfeitures. The jails and prisons financially benefit from resulting convictions. Drug testing facilities and parole programs get more “customers”. Pharmaceutical companies continue pushing out heroin in the form of pills (in ever increasing amounts), all while gaining the majority of their consumer base by previously lying about the addictive potential and efficiency. These entities then reinvest some of this into getting more anti-marijuana politicians elected, or use the additional resources to enact new laws and policies to further their crusade.

 

This is why they don’t want income from marijuana related activities being legit or for marijuana to be accepted as medicine. Once a legit recreational or medical economy gets started, funds will begin pouring over to the opposite front as we've seen in several states that have legalized it. A snowball effect has already started, but who knows how long this will take. We need many changes with legislatures, LEO, laws, state/federal funding and various protections against abuse. In other words, just about everything needs to be fixed.

Edited March 5, 2016 by Alphabob

[zachw]

Suspended with pay?  No charges filled ?  wtf?

 

Bad technician, bad! We're going to punish you with a paid vacation.