There are many police departments that receive a large chunk of their budgets from anti-drug grants from their states and federal departments like the Departmen

There are many police departments that receive a large chunk of their budgets from anti-drug grants from their states and federal departments like the Department of Justice [0]. Generally, the cops can keep anything they seize in a drug bust such as fancy cars and trucks, cash, weapons, through "civil asset forfeiture"... This is true even if the defendants are found not guilty. Sometimes the seized drugs even wind back up on the market because the cops resell them [1]. Then there's folks who just enjoy being able to wield their power over others (they were probably the kids found bullying others in school). 0: The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bmbab8/the-police-officers-who-sell-the-drugs-they-seize https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bmbab8/the-police-officer...