Created by Flex Your Rights and narrated by DPA President Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. In an entertaining and revealing manner, the video illustrates the right and wrong ways to handle different police encounters and pays special attention to demonstrating how citizens can courteously and confidently refuse police searches.

Because the legal consequences are often the worst consequences of illegal drug use, it’s essential that young people be prepared to assert their legal rights during police encounters. That’s why BUSTED is an essential component of any truth-based drug education curriculum.

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Here’s what experts are saying about BUSTED:

“Our constitutional rights are worth only the paper they are written on unless we understand and exercise them. BUSTED makes an important contribution toward transforming the Constitution’s paper promises into real rights for real people.”
Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union

“BUSTED is the only video I know of that is providing clear and candid information about how to ‘just say no’ to intimidating police searches. Parents, teachers, and concerned citizens across the U.S. should use BUSTED to protect young people, who are often targeted by police, from the greatest harm of using marijuana -- arrest.”
Robert Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project

“BUSTED teaches that people have precious inherent rights under our Constitution and should never feel guilty when exercising these rights during police encounters.”
Joseph D. McNamara, Retired police chief of San Jose, CA. Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

“Most non-violent drug offenders would have avoided my courtroom if they had seen BUSTED.”
Robert W. Sweet, New York City District Court Judge