[Ancesthntr]

A police officer and his family recently moved next door. They seem like very good people, and probably are. However, I have wondered since Day 1 how a cop could afford 2 fairly new Mercedes. This article seems to offer an answer though, in all fairness, I don’t know it for a fact.

I do know, for a fact, that the civil forfeiture laws are an abomination, and must be reversed.

[TankerKC]

However, I have wondered since Day 1 how a cop could afford 2 fairly new Mercedes.

Here in California cops can easily make $150K...before overtime and extracurriculars.

[Glennb51]

ALL you accountants cook the books for organized crime; and ALL of you who own repair shops pad the bills and rip off your customers; and ALL you in the IT industry overcharge for a simple computer defrag or service call: and ALL of you who work in a government are lazy, fat, and do nothing but think up ways to rip off the taxpayer. If I missed any of you, I apologize.

Need I go on?

Thanks for painting all of us with the same brush.

[Hepsabeth]

I have wondered since Day 1 how a cop could afford 2 fairly new Mercedes...

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It’s very possible that he’s corrupt, but there are so many other reasons for his apparent wealth that you really can’t make the assumption that he is.

His wife may earn good money.

They may have had a large inheritance.

They may have won a lottery, or hit it big in Vegas, or done well playing the stocks.

He may have had different high-paying job before he became a cop.

They may have sold a house at the top of the peak prices for a huge profit.

Ask him where he bought the cars. If he got them at the local police auction for seized goods (you know, the one they advertise in microscopic print in the back of the newspaper), then you know he and his colleagues are likely personally profiting from these laws.