The Weekly — Season 1, Episode 18: Guilty by Machine

Episode synopsis

Are police breathalyzers fundamentally flawed? Do they even work? The Weekly investigates one of the most widely used forensic tools in law enforcement.

About The Weekly

A narrative documentary news program that features one or two of the New York Times’ biggest and most important visual stories each week following the stories and the reporters that work on them every step of the way.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Education of T.M. Landry
• E2The Myth of the Medallion
• E3Baby Constantin
• E4Collision
• E5Inauguration, Inc.
• E6The End of the Line
• E7Connecting The World
• E8Hard Left
• E9The Rabbit Hole
• E10The Memo
• E11The Six Million Dollar Claim
• E12Apple's Gold