Heh, and rereading the story – “He would no more use drugs than the man on the moon.” Uh, which man on the moon is that, David Bowie?

Cocaine is rather rapidly metabolized (half life is less than one hour in most people). I don’t know if anyone has looked at how much cocaine or its metabolites are eliminated from the body by sweat or vaginal secretions, but I’m willing to bet (quite a lot) that it is a small fraction of what is excreted in the urine.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I find it really, really unlikely based on what I know about pharmacokinetics.

Someone also brought up the possibility that his partner was using the drug vaginally. This would make his story more plausible, except for the part about him being unaware of her habit (his mouth would get rather numb.)

Say he did nothing wrong. That is no antidote for the Kafkaesque bureaucracy he now finds himself in. That’s why we have privacy: because who’s to say that life (or “government,” in this case) is fair.

If there is any poetic justice, my guess this officer has no doubt used the “if you’ve done nothing wrong” line hundreds of times in the course of his duty.

He could have been Mormon/LDS. That makes it even more appropriate! But, he may have just been a “Punk” religion follower. “Religious” people who think not drinking coffee, or any other “vice” makes them better than anyone else, need to be knocked down a few levels. What goes around comes around! Now he faces his own type of judgment, ever flawed that it may be!

Maybe he should look up LEAP! Maybe they could help him identify the literature about false positive testing and the destruction of the lives of innocent people. He should feel real stupid about now, if he was truly not a user! He needs a lecture from LEAP, too! At least, they acknowledged their hypocrisy, and changed their ways!

I don’t know 70 people that would be willing to testify that I’m not the queen of England. Yet, cops get 70 buddies to testify he absolutely doesn’t do coke…as a single guy in NYC…at punk concerts…with a party-girlfriend who he’s nailing every other day…who happens to do coke.

One more point: nice journalist work here by the daily news. They answered all the Journalism 101 questions and a couple follow-ups that were obvious. I wish they’d hold a seminar for NYT/WaPo/Globe and about 800 smaller papers.

No sympathy as he has been an active participant in a system that does that on a regular basis to us “ordinary” folks. One would think that situations like this would make SOME cops pause and go….”hmmmmmmmm”…..but I think that the irony and the possible lesson to be learned here will be completely lost on those who should be having little “idea light bulbs” going off over their heads in the cartoon version of this story.

If this guy is telling the truth about being a straight edge punker, any one with an inkling of the scene knows straight edge punks are dogmatic about their lifestyle. To the point that the straight edge/hardcore scene got pretty violent over it’s core issues, especially in the late 80’s and early 90’s and so on. But these are not overtly racist, immoral, ethically challenged people. Well, maybe a little ethically challenged but they ain’t die-hard right wing, Constitution busters. They’re a little more left wing with their Constitution busting.

Fuck, stranger things have happened.

Whatever you think, he won’t be flying high anymore.

“Rakower ruled that even though the appeals court put a stop to hair tests in December 2007, Goldin’s firing must stand because he voluntarily cooperated with the drug test and allowed hair samples to be taken from his arm.”

In every job I’m aware of, failure to cooperate with a drug test mandated by an employer leads immediately to termination.

He may have been a crappy cop, but this was also a crappy way to get rid of him.

Scenario A: You get yourself a cocaine-using LEO. Not to hard to be jubilnat about that one.

Scenario B: You get yourself a LEO who’s been subjected to the abasement of false positives. We get a renewed distrust of pseudo-scientific processes that errouniously affirm our preconceived prejudices.

Hooray!

And sooner or later, the whole thing ends up on Cracked…

I hate myself.

What planet are these guys on? Your boss says take a drug test…what are you gonna do? Say no? Yeah right

What he meant: “I got it snorting coke off her tits while she blew my lever.”