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To: Gen.Blather
Why didn’t the three deputies make the arrest right then and there? Well, I suspect it was so they could get extra pay and practice.

In Mo. they passed a law that all the "asset forfeiture" money from drug busts would go to the school system. The feds worked out a system where the local police would call them first and they'd provide federal paperwork for the bust. Then they'd take over the asset forfeiture and kick part of it back to the local police as a "grant", and the school system got nothing.

55 posted on 06/04/2014 2:31:30 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Asset forfeiture is a good tool in theory. But now every “police” (quotes because police now means “revenue”) agency has an asset forfeiture group. In Tallahassee they took a grandmother’s paid for home because they said her grandson sold drugs from her porch. The paper mentioned that if she’d had a mortgage instead of owning it outright they wouldn’t have bothered. So, the sale wasn’t her fault. She wasn’t getting any money from it, but they succeeded in taking her home. Now, could she have fought it in court? In theory, but you have to come up with $5,000 down and $500/hour to use the court system. For all intents and purposes there is no justice unless you have plenty of money.


59 posted on 06/04/2014 2:37:14 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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