Posted on 12/08/2021 2:31:37 PM PST by simpson96
Two local TV news outlets, WFAA and CBS11, picked up a story this week that was first reported on the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page. On the surface, it reads like a feel-good story: On December 2, an adorable K9 named Ballentine identified a piece of carry-on luggage at Dallas Love Field Airport that contained $100,000 in cash. Police seized the money and posted a photo of the dog with stacks of cash laid out on a table. Good boy. Case closed. But not so fast.
According to the reports, the money belonged to a 25-year-old woman from Chicago, who was neither arrested nor charged with a crime after her luggage was seized by police. So why did the police take the money? Well, according to Texas law, police don’t need a reason to take your property so long as they believe it either has been part of a crime or they believe it will be involved in a crime. That grants law enforcement sweeping powers to basically seize any property they believe is suspicious, even if they don’t have much evidence. The fact that the K9 identified the bag is, in and of itself, not evidence; 90 percent of cash in circulation has been shown to have trace amounts of cocaine.(snip)
Civil forfeiture laws allow law enforcement to seize property without due process.
(Excerpt) Read more at dmagazine.com ...
“I see you have money. Give it to me.”
— your local police
Civil Asset Forfeiture should be done away with. One of many things that violate people’s rights by pretending it’s being done to their property (like progressive taxation) that should all go away, really.
Drug runner.
Someone needs to declare those laws unconstitutional and strike them down. HOWEVER, a 25 year old, female, going to Chicago (bang, bang), flying out of Love Field with 100,000 smackaroonies? That’s gangster money. Is she with BLM?
If she walks away without fighting for it, then it must be dirty money. I’d fight in court for a lot less than $100k.
Remind me never to carry $100,000 in cash through any airport in the US (and probably most anywhere else).
good luck in that fight if they have all your money.
that is the problem with these laws.
The cop appears to be a 'Dog of Color' so one would think not. Now, if it was a White Dog....
If you can't find a lawyer willing to take a shot at it on contingency, with $100k cash in sight, it's a mighty weak case.
Men lose a lot more than that every day in family courts. This government stinks and should be brought back to within the confines of the constitution.
we need to face up to the simple fact that there ARE some crooked cops out there
I have seen police steal citizens’ property
it does happen (with or without these TX laws)
it does happen
we need to get rid of the rotten apples in the Police Dept (and other agencies).....so that the good honest workers there can protect us like they want to
The sheeple get exactly what they have learned through their own ignorance or laziness...
Suspecting a person of being a criminal is different than proving it. I just don’t understand how the police taking 100k in cash from a person without proving anything is not a violation of the 4th Amendment.
“Drug runner.”
Prove it.
Frankly, there was a time that I stupidly trusted that “the system” would find innocent people innocent and guilty people guilty. That was some time ago, and being older and wiser, I think otherwise now.
Meant to include the “Patriot Act” as well...
Civil Forfeiture is a legal sham. Always has been.
Time to scrap it, completely.
no name, and no picture, ANYWHERE!!! hummm...
Prove it. In court.
I carried that much in my truck to go buy a new boat... I’m far from being a drug runner.
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