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They get around it by claiming your house or car (or whatever) is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately, inanimate objects can't represent themselves in court.
by MagicWishMonkey 11y ago
They get around it by claiming your house or car (or whatever) is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately, inanimate objects can't represent themselves in court.
- fenomas 11y agoAKA Civil Forfeiture. John Oliver did an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
- chad_strategic 11y agoShucks you beat me to it. This was about a year go... It's only now that main stream media is picking up on this scam by the police. This type of aggressive policing (excessive jaywalking tickets) was also happening in Ferguson. We know how that turned out...
- icebraining 11y agoAs much as I like to beat on the MSM, they did pick it up; plenty of major publications (the Economist, the New Yorker, USA Today, Forbes, the WSJ, PBS, NPR, and many more) had articles on it before John Oliver's episode. Sarah Stillman's article for the New Yorker, Taken, is particularly good, as well as depressing: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken