Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
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Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#2The whole point of a taxpayer funded police force is so that police operations are not biased because of where the money comes from. Having the police profit from police operations completely subverts that.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#3The whole point of a taxpayer funded police force is so that police operations are not biased because of where the money comes from. Having the police profit from police operations completely subverts that.
agreed, I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it.
Douglas Adams was bang on the nail when he said something to the tune of "that the only beings that can and should be trusted with power is those that dont want it, or aren't aware they have it"
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#4It's about time a federal judge applies common sense to a forfeiture case. It really is amazing how little logic and common sense our judicial system has. How are we the people supposed to trust an illogical system that steals from people, murders innocent people, and that a third grader can see is unconstitutional? How can one even explain such madness to children who wonder if the cops killed the black guy just to take his car and house? Of course they did.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#5The whole point of a taxpayer funded police force is so that police operations are not biased because of where the money comes from. Having the police profit from police operations completely subverts that.
agreed, I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Douglas Adams was bang on the nail when he said something to the tune of "that the only beings that can and should be trusted with power is those that dont want it, or aren't aware they have it"
> I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it.
Then you'll end up with a bunch of charismatic police folks who want it, and can swoon voters to give it, but are generally ineffective at doing it. Source: politics in the US above the municipal level.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#6The whole point of a taxpayer funded police force is so that police operations are not biased because of where the money comes from. Having the police profit from police operations completely subverts that.
It's like paying bugfix bounties to the developers who wrote the code in the first place. They have incentives to produce more bugs and these cops are motivated to invent crimes.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
agreed, I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Douglas Adams was bang on the nail when he said something to the tune of "that the only beings that can and should be trusted with power is those that dont want it, or aren't aware they have it"
> I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Then you'll end up with a bunch of charismatic police folks who want it, and can swoon voters to give it, but are generally ineffective at doing it. Source: politics in the US above the municipal level.
that already happens, county judges and sheriffs.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#8"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize cars."
How the fuck is a city able to just decide to ignore state laws? I don't understand...
The officials in charge at the city level and in the police department need to see some jail time for breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#9This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel of justice to get going.
Re: Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
#10"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize cars." How the fuck is a city able to just decide to ignore state laws? I don't understand... The officials in charge at the city level and in the police department need to see some jail time for breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.
Typically the concept of Home Rule is used.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_Stat...