LE steals Grandma's home and car, but she gets them back

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Raddo

An important point to make here is that these funds don't go to the "police" as a whole, but instead are given directly to the department that made the bust. They use the money to buy more cars, vests, guns, etc., so that they can find even more victims. With that sort of direct incentive, it has turned them into rabid dogs. Justice has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Or popcorn machines.

A class-action lawsuit uncovered that the proceeds from this highway robbery—an estimated $3 million between 2006 and 2008—were paying for popcorn machines, donations to a local Baptist church and bonuses for law enforcement key to the operation. Meanwhile, the DA was handing out light sentences to those caught with drugs, or laundered money, in exchange for seizing their assets.

https://www.texasobserver.org/preyin...il-forfeiture/

[lionking]

I totally disagree with this confiscation policy, just like I disagree with privatized prisons. It sets up the judicial system and police to be "bounty hunters" and privateers of sorts just like back when governments sanctioned pirates.

It goes against everything I believe America is suppose to stand for, it makes crime profitable for government and profitable for certain private industries who will give kick backs to the government.

It makes having more laws, more criminals the more profitable for government, which equals less freedom for everybody else.

[cisco kid]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

Voting Dem will not change civil asset forfeiture abuse. They don't care either.

Uncle Obama promised to end civil asset forfeiture and could have easily done so
through the Justice Department but changed his mind and did nothing.

No hope no change.

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