Local officials can still arrange for you to be arrested, charged, and jailed. Sweet of them, isn't it? BTW..the fake drugs were found to be pool cue chalk at one point.
http://tinyurl.com/4aalpThe Dallas City Council apologized to victims of the 2001 fake-drug scandal Wednesday, unanimously passing a resolution that expressed "deep remorse" for the false arrests.
The measure also offered apologies to the victims' families and the city's residents for breakdowns at the Police Department while calling on officials to continue shoring up procedures.
It erupted in late 2001 after more than two dozen people, mostly Hispanic immigrants, went to jail that summer and fall based on bogus drug evidence planted by corrupt police informants.
The resolution states that those false arrests – which have led to criminal charges against several former narcotics officers and the informants – should be "indelibly etched in our history," so that similar mistakes aren't repeated
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