And that, Miles said, works to the benefit of the police.
He had two clients where police agreed to drop the cases in exchange for a cut of the money -- $1,000 in one case, $2,000 in another. In both cases, that was less than what they might have paid in attorney fees.
Miles called that "extortion."
Texas Sheriff’s deputies robbed an old girlfriend’s 20-something son of $3,000 on a 2:00am traffic stop because “he was driving a rental car” and didn’t have a pay-stub for the money.
They lived out of state and it would have taken more than $3,000 to hire an attorney to fight it.
Sounds more like "Bribery".