Florida Man Awarded $37,500 After Cops Mistake Glazed Doughnut Crumbs For Meth

Police in Orlando and Oviedo, like many other law enforcement agencies, use inexpensive field kits to test for drugs. Orlando’s police use NIK brand narcotic testing kits. A NIK general screening kit, which tests for opiates, meth and other drugs, costs just $18 for a box of 10. But such roadside test kits are far from foolproof. A 2016 investigation by ProPublica and The New York Times found that tens of thousands of people are sent to jail each year based on the kits’ results, which often generate false positives.