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Or more scarily, have you ever had a passenger in your car and you're not 100% sure if they had drugs on their person? Have you ever had police search your car
by MertsA 10y ago
Or more scarily, have you ever had a passenger in your car and you're not 100% sure if they had drugs on their person? Have you ever had police search your car with a drug dog or consented to a search with a drug dog? Both of those combined has been used to seize cars from innocent people because unbeknownst to them their passenger had a small amount of weed on them.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoThat is scary - I've been close to that situation, minus the official search. And it is fairly easy to be in that situation. Dating, car-pooling at the job, or simply giving a little-known aquaintance or a friend's family member home can land you in that situation. My personal experience with that was in the late 90's. I took some folks home. It happened they lived in public housing in a town of around 50k. Suddenly, there were lots of cop cars and dogs about. I was getting asked about drugs and if any passengers had drugs, while being told that they know there was crack in the area and, "they found out that white folks are doing it too". (The others in my care were african-american). At that point, I realized I didn't know these folks all that well. Youth + giving folks a ride home from a mutual location. I wasn't as worried about my car at that point because I knew nothing of civil forfeiture, but I was intensely worried about them dropping the drugs in the car and denying ownership. It would have been a nearly instant drug conviction for me, from what I understood at the time.