Posted on 09/07/2014 9:29:08 AM PDT by grumpygresh
The practice has been controversial since its inception at the height of the drug war more than three decades ago, and its abuses have been the subject of journalistic exposés and congressional hearings. But unexplored until now is the role of the federal government and the private police trainers in encouraging officers to target cash on the nations highways since 9/11.
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If the cop wants to tear your car apart hthe dog will “alert.”
Them, too.
Asset forfeiture laws allow us to take the ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets and more prosecutors in court.
Yup. It makes me laugh when the partisans here notice this great evil and start screaming about Obama. This actually reaches farther back than HW Bush, and came to you courtesy of the nation's drug warriors. The consequences of the 'drug war' on our liberties far outstrip any potential issues caused by drugs themselves.
I blame the drug warriors individually and as a group for this assault on our Constitution.
Brand new currency straight from the federal reserve have cocaine residue on them.
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