The courts used incredibly tortured and corrupt language to support "asset forfeiture."
The police don't need to charge you, if they think that the property MIGHT have come from illegal activity. Instead, they "arrest" the property. Since the property isn't a person, it has no rights. Therefore, they can take your property for pretty much any reason, and YOU have to prove that you came by it "legitamately," and pay for the chance to do so.
It's so WRONG it is enough to make one's head spin. But it's "legal."
Mark
The 4th:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ”