Six Boston cops fired after testing positive for cocaine have been ordered reinstated — with back pay — after a state board struck down hair tests as unreliable in a bombshell ruling that could have a far-reaching impact on how city workers are drug-tested.
I'm relatively sure these same drug tests, or similar, are still used to re-incarcerate felons on parole or simple drug users on probation pretty much every day. So my only concern here is that if these police officers are allowed to use cocaine and still keep their jobs will "convicted" criminals be given the same redemption?
To add insult to injury the excuses some of the officers made were outright ludicrous. The article goes on to say:
Some of them made excuses for their failed tests, including Bridgeforth, who told the commission he may have had false positive tests because he brushed white powder off the seat of his cruiser, which he “assumed was confectionery powder from doughnuts.” He also said he lived in a townhouse that shared a heating vent with neighbors who were crack smokers, records state.
Bridgeman, meanwhile, told commissioners he believed his positive test was because he had a “habit of putting drugs ... from suspects in his pocket where he also kept cookies to eat.”
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