Posted on 10/01/2016 5:36:26 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The Chicago Police Department doesn't disclose its forfeiture income or expenditures to the public, and doesn't account for it in its official budget. Instead, CPD's Bureau of Organized Crime, the division tasked with drug- and gang-related investigations, oversees the forfeiture fund in what amounts to a secret budget—an off-the-books stream of income used to supplement the bureau's public budget.
The Reader found that CPD uses civil forfeiture funds to finance many of the day-to-day operations of its narcotics unit and to secretly purchase controversial surveillance equipment without public scrutiny or City Council oversight.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoreader.com ...
Rahm probably over-sees that and some money laudering thru The Clinton Foundation and Crime Family, naturally.
Well it would be difficult to continue their outstanding record of achievement if they were accountable to the subjects of Chicago.
Whatever they do with however much money they steal is obviously none of our damn business./s
No public agency should be able to hide this money confiscated from the public it serves.
As in Meh-e-coh, the only difference between the crime entities are uniforms.
I can’t stand “Asset Forfeiture”.
It ought to be unlawful in a place like America...
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