Negative Space: 2023

Guidelines for DEA drug task force agents in three adjacent states give conflicting advice on when officers are supposed to become suspicious:

- Agents in Illinois are told it’s suspicious if their subjects are among the first people off a plane, because it shows they’re in a hurry.
- In Michigan, the DEA says that being the last off a plane is suspicious because the subject is trying to appear unconcerned.
- And in Ohio, agents are told suspicion should surface when suspects deplane in the middle of a group—they may be trying to lose themselves in the crowd. — Pittsburgh Press (Presumed Guilty: The Law’s Victims in the War on Drugs)