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You have to wonder how this works. Like how does the officer know how much you have and how much is 'appropriate' to confiscate? I wonder if it does a series
by rando444 10y ago
You have to wonder how this works.
Like how does the officer know how much you have and how much is 'appropriate' to confiscate?
I wonder if it does a series of authorizations looking for some sort of upper limit to figure out how much money is in the account and then they determine what to take from that?
Either way, this goes way beyond reason for what a trooper should be able to do on the side of a road during a traffic stop.
- alistairSH 10y agoThe officer doesn't have to know. Or care. He just takes every penny the system allows and lets you fight the DA over it at a later date. Even if the money is returned, it doesn't cost the cop anything to try. And if they keep the money, some moeny goes back to the police department.
- noir_lord 10y agoLiterally Highway Robbery.
- rando444 10y agoYes, but my statement was more of a technical one regarding how such a system might work. I am speaking about the method used to determine how much is in an account and what can be withdrawn, because they can't check your balance without a pin number, and if their system is issuing multiple repeated authorizations, what protections banks have in place that might block these sorts of transactions to prevent theft.
- alistairSH 10y agoI believe the system is operating on pre-paid cards. I don't know the technical differences in transactions on those vs normal credit cards, but I assume there are some.
- snuxoll 10y agoFun fact, when running credit or debit cards you can actually get the available balance on them. I've made the mistake of going to the gas station when my checking account only had a couple of dollars in it, ran the card at the pump and it let me put in exactly enough gas to 0 out my account and no more.