[Netizen]

Usually the FBI or police are not entitled to monies from things pertaining to doing their jobs. For instance, when reward money is issued they are exempt. Why is this different?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Usually the FBI or police are not entitled to monies from things pertaining to doing their jobs. For instance, when reward money is issued they are exempt. Why is this different?

Ask Henry Hyde. He wrote the asset forfeiture laws we 'enjoy' today.

Well, he wrote it when he wasn't fooling around with another man's wife and calling it a 'youthful indescretion'.

[bukkdems]

Authority is intoxicating enough without the lure of lucre.

There was a local child psychologist accused of pedophilia because of some mildly questionable photographs he had developed. He pled guilty because of the threat of forfeiture of his home, as he had a wife and children to protect.

So, property seizure is not limited to drug activity, and authorities are using this power to deny a fair trial, even though there was no evidence this doctor profited off of the offense.

[DaoPian]

This is different because some idiot came up with the idea and nobody complained. Now the practice is entrenched. What person or organization would give up this kind of cash flow?

Answer: Neither the cops or the criminals will stop until there is no cash in the proposition.

In other words, this is the free market in operation here, irregardless of moral, criminal, or whatever codes we might think up. Conflict of interest? Not if your with the cops. What a frickin messed up world we live in.