Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 7 months agoAnimal shelter workers hospitalised after FBI uses furnace to burn seized methwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down10cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoCheaper and easier for the FBI to use a shelter’s incinerator than to equip every field office with an incinerator that would rarely be used.
minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoYou don’t need one in every field office; just one in each region that several nearby offices can transport narcotics to for destruction.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI’m guessing that adds too much complexity to the whole chain-of-evidence thing.
minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months ago‘it’s too much paperwork’ is a pretty weak excuse for exposing the public to narcotics residue. The ashes in those furnaces are often collected and returned to families.
Cheaper and easier for the FBI to use a shelter’s incinerator than to equip every field office with an incinerator that would rarely be used.
You don’t need one in every field office; just one in each region that several nearby offices can transport narcotics to for destruction.
I’m guessing that adds too much complexity to the whole chain-of-evidence thing.
‘it’s too much paperwork’ is a pretty weak excuse for exposing the public to narcotics residue. The ashes in those furnaces are often collected and returned to families.