[dontreadthis]

It took him four months to get his money back, but it usually takes a lot longer for most people.

And that, Miles said, works to the benefit of the police.

He had two clients where police agreed to drop the cases in exchange for a cut of the money -- $1,000 in one case, $2,000 in another. In both cases, that was less than what they might have paid in attorney fees.

Miles called that "extortion."

[Rebelbase]

Texas Sheriff’s deputies robbed an old girlfriend’s 20-something son of $3,000 on a 2:00am traffic stop because “he was driving a rental car” and didn’t have a pay-stub for the money.

They lived out of state and it would have taken more than $3,000 to hire an attorney to fight it.

[theDentist]

...police agreed to drop the cases in exchange for a cut of the money -- $1,000 in one case, $2,000 in another.... Miles called that "extortion."

Sounds more like "Bribery".