The laws from anti drug era that legalized police theft

“but what I don’t get is, how is it that carrying around a large wad of cash in your car is so suspicious, yet rednecks can ride around in their great-big, over-sized trucks, brandishing all kinds of high-powered weapons and ammo on full display - and police are like “yes, and what’s the problem?” “

THAT.

I’m going to go with ex wife on this one as my ex hid money in his car too. He would buy expensive things out of the blue and I couldn’t find any record on bank or credit card statements. Our teenaged son found money in the car, took it, spent it and there was this big secretive argument between son and husband that went on for months until I accidentally overheard one of their conversations.

I don’t know where it came from because I had a forensic accountant look at records to see if he had stolen money from the marriage. They couldn’t find it so I’m guessing he stole it from someone else.

Civil forfeiture. Cops do this in every state but 4- North Carolina, New Mexico, Nebraska and Maine have passed laws against it and only seize assets through criminal law. It's use picked up during the 80s as part of the "war on drugs", though it was used during the prohibition Era as well. It's highly abused by cops as a way to increase funding to their departments. They can take large sums of cash, cars, even homes and other properties with only a suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. It's notoriously difficult to get property back once it's been seized, requiring the owner to sue the department to get it returned which most people just can't afford to do. Even being charged and found not guilty of a crime won't get it returned.

Well, the troopers in Nevada need some way of funding their penchant for high-class prostitutes, fast cars and methamphetamine.

There are some places that just need help being financed, Lara found one. The problems is that he does not want to help. How is that being nice?

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