“Who exactly is the victim when crack cocaine is found on someone’s person or property? Maybe the owner of that property? In Scotia, New York, local and county police decided they were suspicious of Donald Andrew’s smoke shop, one of many in Schenectady County but, according to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, apparently the only one owned by a black person. They sent an informant, someone facing jail time of their own, to, er, ‘investigate.’ Here’s what happened, via the local NBC affiliate,WNYT.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/27/undercover-informant-plants-crack-cocain
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