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‘No Field Test is Fail Safe': Meet the Chemist Behind Houston's Police Drug Kits

‘No Field Test is Fail Safe': Meet the Chemist Behind Houston's Police Drug Kits

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Jul 12, 2016
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‘No Field Test is Fail Safe': Meet the Chemist Behind Houston's Police Drug Kits
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by Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

In 1973, L.J. Scott, Jr., was a chemist at the recently created Drug Enforcement Agency, hard at work on a critical breakthrough: a chemical mixture that could identify…

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