[Jaysun]

I think I've read that there's at least one financial incentive for police to find drugs in a situation like yours.I think they get to keep the car or something like that.

If I'm correct (and any lawyer who might read this will set me straight if I'm not) you've got your motive for the search,IMO.

If that's true then I'm perfectly willing and able to sue the sons a bitches to get it changed. An incentive? Give me a damned break. I was in suit and tie with a baby seat in the rear. I'm as far as one can get from a typical dope user / pusher.

[Gay State Conservative]

If that's true then I'm perfectly willing and able to sue the sons a bitches to get it changed. An incentive? Give me a damned break. I was in suit and tie with a baby seat in the rear. I'm as far as one can get from a typical dope user / pusher.

Rest assured that I'm not defending what they did.All I'm doing is suggesting why they might have done it.Of course,if my assumption about the financial incentive is wrong,then my theory goes out the window.

Never having been a cop,I haven't the foggiest idea of how they think.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

It's called civil forfeiture. Same thing that allows them to seize accused drug dealers' homes, cars, boats or other property. It doesn't require a court ruling for them to be able to do it. And, in order to get it reversed, the burden of proof is yours. All sanctioned by SCOTUS, of course.