Cops are seizing hundreds of millions of dollars from drivers and bragging about it in chat rooms

[Mason3000]

Originally Posted by random_thoughts

Hm. I drive on highways all the time and nobody ever took a penny for me?

Is it because I never had $40,000 cash in my car or a kilo of coke in my trunk?

I dont know.

It's not illegal to have $40,000 cash though.

[Leisesturm]

How can this be defended?? This is no better than police allowing car thieves to continue their operations for a cut of the profits! Likely you never will come face to face with hard drugs if you are not a user but back in the day I know I had a car stolen. I was pretty mad to find out that a chop shop had been operating just one block from my precinct. I thought living across the street from a precinct house was a pretty smart move. Wrong. Those precinct commanders turned the neighborhood into their personal cash machine. They enabled every kind of street crime up to and including raping and mugging. A woman was raped and mugged right outside the precinct one night. She came to my next door neighbors house for help. He directed her to the precinct. She didn't even know it was a precinct. They had erected a huge stone fence around it and parked all the department vehicles inside and removed all the identifying shields etc. They operated like that for years. Very different now though. But cops haven't changed I see. And those of you who don't see the harm in allowing criminals to go scot free without charges but to just pay their way out of jail are missing the point. That money just goes into the precinct slush fund. Its dirty money. It doesn't help the good citizens of the community. It absolutely should be condemned as being just as criminal as drug dealing is.

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[Versatile]

Originally Posted by John1960

This weekend, The Washington Post published a deeply reported look at "highway interdiction," a controversial tactic that has allowed police to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists without formally charging anyone with a crime. Typically, police will stop a driver under suspicion of drug trafficking, seize their cash as evidence, and refuse to return it without a legal challenge. Only one in six seizures were challenged, typically because of the high cost of legal assistance.

Cops are seizing hundreds of millions of dollars from drivers and bragging about it in chat rooms | The Verge

I know of a guy(local to the community) about 15 yrs ago got stopped by a cop and he had 2 oz. of white powder. He also had $88,000.00 in cash on him. Seems that he never complained that the cops didn't mention the $88k in their report. I haven't heard of him in yrs and i suspect he is in jail.

[cremebrulee]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

So it's OK for LE to steal money from innocent people? Get your head out of the sand. This happens every day all over the USA.
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Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime

A deputy for the Humboldt County’s Sheriff Office in rural Nevada has been accused of confiscating over $60,000 from drivers who were never charged with a crime. These cash seizures are now the subject of two federal lawsuits and are the latest to spotlight a little-known police practice called civil forfeiture.

Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime - Forbes

ok, lets discuss this....is this just one instance or are there many?
if the police are seizing that much money, they don't have to charge them with a crime, b/c who ever owns that cash will most certainly do the runners in....yanno?
police do not make much money...and believe me I'm not saying this is right, but maybe they are keeping it, and/or maybe they are funding their own brothers....maybe they are sick and tired of all the corruption and them being the first to have to take cuts...do you know that in a whole lot of states, they rotate shifts, so cops that want to find a 2nd job cannot....so easily.

Another senerio...maybe this is a lie?

do you realize how many drug offenders get off
do you realize how many times a cop arrests an offender, sometimes as many as 20 times....
that means a whole lot of paper work and tax payers money to proscute them only to let them go?

So, maybe the cops are doing us a favor? Granted, it's not right but no one else seems to be doing anything about our laws, it gets worse and worse...when your government is corrupt, so to will your people be.