Stop and Seize
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Stop and Seize
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#2Apparently in Philly the DA will seize entire homes over a $40 drug bust: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/philadelphia-drug-bust-hous...
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#3In an era of budget shortfalls and market-based solutions, the American government is quickly becoming a for-profit enterprise at all costs.
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#4The local governments invariable claim it's not about the money; it's about safety or some such. I want an amendment that puts all the money from fines, seizures, etc. to the national debt. That's the closest thing to a black hole for money I can think of. Watch them scream then. Not about the money, my ass.
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#5I cannot believe this is happening - that is truly insane.
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#6Near the end, they talk about how police can use psychological pressure to keep someone at the side of the road, not telling them they can leave any time the initial traffic stop is over. They then make 'productive' use of that time.
Why you should never talk to police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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#7The United Shakedowns of America.
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#8He was carrying $75,000 raised from relatives to buy a Chinese restaurant...
They took $18,000 that he said was meant to buy a used car.
...was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction...
The deputy found $75,195 in a suitcase in the back seat...
They were carrying $28,500 in church funds meant for the purchase of land...
No doubt there's injustice that needs to be addressed, but it's tough to have much sympathy for idiots. There's simply no logical reason to travel with that much cash. These people should feel lucky that the police, and not someone else, took their money.
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#10'“9/11 caused a lot of officers to realize they should be out there looking for those kind of people,” said David Frye, a part-time Nebraska county deputy sheriff who serves as chief instructor at Desert Snow and was operations director of Black Asphalt. “When money is taken from an organization, it hurts them more than when they lose the drugs.”'
Wait, what? I was unaware that 9/11 was perpetrated by drug traffickers.