Cops arrest people they admit are innocent

A police commander in Chambers County, Alabama, saith:

"I would like to emphasize that although most individuals arrested as part of this investigation are believed to be involved with the manufacture of methamphetamine, not all are."

Then why were the people who aren't involved with it arrested?

Is the War on Drugs so out of control now that people are arrested even when police know they're innocent? (Yes.)

What were they arrested for? Not for meth, but for (here we go again) buying too much cold medicine.

Uh, weren't the new laws against cold and sinus medicine supposed to target meth? For several years, the official bullshit line has been that nobody would possibly buy more than one box of the stuff every 6 months unless they were using it to cook meth. That's a lie, because now it turns out that some people arrested under this law are indeed innocent of meth involvement.

Oops.

But I'd take issue with the statement quoted above. Not only is it certainly true that some of the people who were arrested had no methamphetamine involvement. It's probably also true that almost all of them had no such involvement. There were about 70 arrest warrants, and Chambers County isn't even big enough to have a market for that many meth labs. In fact, only 4 meth labs were found out of all the dozens of arrests.

This story would be almost unbelievable except that the drug war has long taken Americans down this fascist road. With the War on Drugs, everyone is considered guilty even when known to be innocent.

(Source: http://www.oanow.com/oan/news/local/article/chambers_co._drug_task_force_arrests_27_in_meth_bust/69700)