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Here are some police-seized and impounded cars, awaiting search warrants on the probable cause that they each had illegal
drugs in them:

To maintain and prove the integrity of the cars’ contents, we’d seal them in there with a lot of evidence tape. That way we could
attest that nothing had been planted in it and nothing had been removed. We had special evidence tape that was tamper proof.
Meaning it would not peel off intact. Once it was applied, it would come off only in very small pieces; it was completely
impossible to remove it in less than a hundred little scrapes. If a window was broken or could not be secured; the whole window
part would be covered and sealed, like this:

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re going to say something about how that sure seems like a lot of tape that’s going to be
stuck on those cars forever, or at the very least take hours and hours to painstakingly clean off. I will try to assure you that this
was not overzealousness on the part of the police, but it was totally necessary to keep the integrity of the vehicles intact until it
was official searching time.

How many times did I pull over a car that had old remnants of police evidence tape still stuck on it? More than a few. Did those
cars and drivers get extra special attention from me? Uh, yeah..