Civil Forfeiture Video: A Huge Money Tree for Cops
This video explains it. Your property (unlike you) is guilty until proven innocent — at your expense.
Cops love this. Lawyers love this. It’s spreading.
Cars are confiscated and sold. Currency is confiscated and kept.
It’s all legal. And it’s spreading.
Then there is the DEA: “. . . in all states, police agencies can contact the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), making the case federal, and under federal law, local police departments can keep up to 80 percent of forfeiture proceeds, with the rest going to the Department of Justice.”
Now, that’s a tempting offer!
But what if they don’t charge you with buying drugs? No problem. Your car did it.
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Posted on May 22, 2012. The original is here.
Did you click through to the article? If not, do it. It tells of a police department that told a woman she had to bring $7,500 cash to bail out her husband. In fact, she didn't have to bring cash. A cashier's check would have been legal by state law.
The cops then called the county's Drug Task Force to alert them to a woman carrying drug money. The DTF arrested her and confiscated her money. She had to sue to get it back. It costs money to hire a lawyer to sue.