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Le_Canard
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75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is.
#5917628 - 07/31/06 02:56 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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75 OFFICERS FAILED CITY DRUG TESTS by Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff, (Source:Boston Globe)
Cocaine Use Most Prevalent, Raising Concern
Since Boston police started annual drug testing in 1999, 75 officers have failed the tests, and 26 of them flunked a second test and were fired, newly released statistics show.
Acting Police Commissioner Albert Goslin said an additional 20 of the officers who tested positive left the department on their own, which he said is because they could not handle the frequent follow-up checks.
Of the 75 officers, 61 tested positive for cocaine, 14 for marijuana, two for ecstasy, and one for heroin, according to the figures, obtained by the Globe through a public records request. ( Some officers had more than one drug in their system ).
(From Norml.Com)
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5917639 - 07/31/06 03:14 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"long arm of the law", eh?
Too bad it can't scratch itself
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: indica]
#5917659 - 07/31/06 03:28 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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you think there were 0 sober tested out of 75 or like 3
wel i gues they all failled once i read the topic line again wow boston eh wonder which ONE was on heroin
Edited by nub (07/31/06 03:30 AM)
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: nub]
#5918132 - 07/31/06 10:18 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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LOL. I wonder how other cities would stack up?
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: 76degrees]
#5918182 - 07/31/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think it's important to note that this article is really saying that in the past seven years, 75 officers tested negative, or about 11 officers annually.
I don't think those numbers are terribly surprising, considering the size of Boston's police force.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Toxxy]
#5918248 - 07/31/06 11:20 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think our government is corrupt. I think our Police are drug adicts and the states write tickets primarily for revenue.
but who gives a shit what I think
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Cryogenicz]
#5918390 - 07/31/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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like we all haven't heard a story of the corrupt pig who pulls you over and takes your weed
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: BGC]
#5919044 - 07/31/06 04:19 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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our government IS corrupt, we've got that! now what are we going to do about is the question
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5919263 - 07/31/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hahahaha, yup....there ya have it.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5920602 - 08/01/06 12:06 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Of the 75 officers, 61 tested positive for cocaine, 14 for marijuana, two for ecstasy, and one for heroin, according to the figures, obtained by the Globe through a public records request. ( Some officers had more than one drug in their system ). that doesn't add up i don't even belive this story.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: meatloaf]
#5920617 - 08/01/06 12:11 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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how dont u believe it? the story is from the boston globe, a paper with a fairly high reputation. its also posted on the norml website, which if were posting untrue shit like that would be dealing with even more legal issues, seriously.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: meatloaf]
#5920854 - 08/01/06 02:05 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Meh, I just report what I find and think will go good here. Believe it or not as you will.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5921043 - 08/01/06 04:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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> that doesn't add up i don't even belive this story.
Some officers had more than one drug in their system Some officers had more than one drug in their system Some officers had more than one drug in their system Some officers had more than one drug in their system Some officers had more than one drug in their system
Duh!! How many drugs are in YOUR system?
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: fastfred]
#5921166 - 08/01/06 06:27 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Recent news ran a story about a prison guard getting shanked because he did things "by the book". I think that says it all about our prison system. Didn't you hear about the New Orleans police looting their own city? Baltimore has one fucked up police force as well. Not a week goes by without a new story about the fucked up things they do. One man was recently awarded 40 million dollars because a prison gaurd dragged the man out of his cell and slammed the guys head into the wall while his hands were cuffed behing his back. The man was paralyzed from the neck down. Recently Baltimore police raped an underage girl AT THE POLICE STATION... AND then we don't even need to bring up the international US military abuses of detainees and "enemy combatants" to whom The Supreme Court recently ruled the Geneva Conventions DO APPLY. So, yeah. Our government is corrupt at all levels. There's so very much more I could bring up as far as corruption goes -but I think anyone who can deny the corruption with a straight face obviously has thier head up their ass and fails to read or watch the news. It's just plain ignorance to dismiss the facts.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: 76degrees]
#5922364 - 08/01/06 04:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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you gotta love the cops lol.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5925182 - 08/02/06 11:59 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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haha..
that isn't really all that bad, though.. if I read correctly those numbers are over the course of 7 years -- since 1999.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: Le_Canard]
#5925253 - 08/02/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
ToiletDuk said: Since Boston police started annual drug testing in 1999, 75 officers have failed the tests, and 26 of them flunked a second test and were fired, newly released statistics show.
How many police officers didn't fail? Boston is a big city, there must be alot of clean (drug free) cops there if in 7 years only 75 officers failed the test. That's almost 11 per year. I bet that's not even 1% of the police force, big fucking deal IMO.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: TODAY]
#5925302 - 08/02/06 12:38 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/pdfs/2004annual_report.pdf
2015 as of 2004
so about 4%
Now how many are dirty that knew how to clean up for the test. I don't know about you guys but I've never failed a test and I'm not exactly what you'd call clean. The article said Annual test, not random. What this means is that being that the majority of them tested positive for cocaine, that 4% of the Boston police force is so hopelessly addicted to coke that they can't clean up in time for the test. Not that only 4% do drugs.
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: CoolMojo]
#5925524 - 08/02/06 02:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's pretty fucking sad when you can't clean up for 3 or 4 days for your once a year piss test!
And what the fuck is that bit about being tested a second time? You can't even keep your job at MacDonalds' if you fail a piss test! Why are these guys allowed to be in charge of people's lives when they aren't even fit to serve burgers?!?
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Re: 75 Fail Drug Test. 75 Boston Police Officers, That Is. [Re: fastfred]
#5926054 - 08/02/06 04:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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put your money where your mouth is, cops! the people that arrest you and I and make us waste years of our precious lives in jail, go home and smoke the ganja they STOLE from you.
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