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I think, perhaps you're giving them too much credit, especially given that they stated that once they'd found no evidence of a grow op, they switched to searchi
by eric_h 11y ago
I think, perhaps you're giving them too much credit, especially given that they stated that once they'd found no evidence of a grow op, they switched to searching for evidence of personal use (the absurdity of which is a whole other discussion).
My guess is that they did no homework at all before performing this raid; they just built a spreadsheet of gardeners, started checking trash cans and raided the first house that had a positive field test.
- golergka 11y agoOr thry had another reason for the search entirely which they didn't want to make public, so just switched stupid excuse for another one?
- eric_h 11y agoMention the CIA and the conspiracy theories just come flying in :P. I'm more inclined to side with both Occam's and Hanlon's razor in this case. Further, if we had data on the number of false positives these "4/20" raids turned up (which, per the article, seems like it could be quite a task to produce), we could come to a reasonable statistical certainty either way.