Posted on 12/09/2021 10:22:41 AM PST by Red Badger
It's a she. Surprising how many people hide cash, and travel with it. No proof of a crime. I have friends who bury cash in jars in their back yards, retrieve some to make large purchases. Crazy? Yes. People traveling to auctions or sales events often carry thousands of dollars in cash. That's nuts, but they do it. As for contesting a seizure, a good lawyer might cost you $100,000 to defend you, so someone might not challenge the seizure.
Sorry. It was meant to be sarcastic.
I don’t care if why they were transporting the money, they had a right to it unless the cops and the courts could prove a crime involving that money.
So they shouldn’t have take the money unless they arrested the owner. And they shouldn’t keep the money unless they can prove that it was the proceeds from a crime.
Civil Asset Forfeiture makes me very angry because it turns cops into thieves.
Yes I know.
He often talked about his Jacksonville gig on DC101. Especially his experience of riding shotgun with the Jacksonville po-lice, which fed into his Officer Greasemanelli skits!
Here come da Judge!
I guess when you take 106 large into custody, it doesn’t get “no-bail” from the Soros DAs...
“Zed’s dead, honey. Zed’s dead.”
Because there were a whole bunch of “true conservatives” who needed to show how tough they were in the War on Drugs. If you questioned asset seizure, you supported giving heroin to grade-schoolers.
It wasn’t a good idea when created.
My father in law worked in the construction industry in Sacramento. He would often tell of how in the 1950’s and 1960’s as the stately old homes of downtown were demolished to make way for government buildings a coworker found $80,000 in $20 gold coins.
That’s 250 pounds of gold. Which was all illegal to own at the time.
The coworker was never seen again and I personally believe that by refusing to turn in the money he did the right thing. Screw the law. The government really is nothing but legalized thievery when they outlaw gold and when they have effectively outlawed the personal possession of cash.
Sickening isn’t it!
sometimes the police are nothing but common thieves. My tagline is relevant.
Except it was still a stupid idea even when you view it through the lens of attempting to take drug traffickers’ money. There’s been an awful lot of stupid ideas excused as “but we had good intentions!”
Even when this was first proposed people pointed out that it didn’t have any safeguards and it could be used to seize money without due process. All the police had to do was seize the money “because they suspected it was the proceeds of crime” and never file charges. Ever.
It needs to go away.
Also, it is now thought that *every* non-new $20 in circulation has trace amounts of illegal drugs on it.
I think most of us agree with that buts it’s far different if you have loads of cash
I’m in a cash business and deal with it to the point I got a lawyer in one jurisdiction ....to obtain a court signed document that we showed when pulling deposits and carrying around a gym bag with cash....50-100k
At first the county DA said ..we should hire Brinks
Where is that his effing business.
There should be due process to seizures as in after an arrest freeze and take assets after conviction and with court approval
All local seizures stay local
Federal seizures gives a small percentage to local and the rest goes to general fund like taxes would
A racket.....
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
You say that as if it is a bad thing. ;-)
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