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Now let's get some further federal protections at all levels restricting property theft by the police (aka "asset forfeiture"; I suppose when a cop murders you
by adventured 6y ago
Now let's get some further federal protections at all levels restricting property theft by the police (aka "asset forfeiture"; I suppose when a cop murders you they might prefer to call it life forfeiture).
- rectang 6y agoWhile your second sentence is dramatic, the analogy it draws appropriately illustrates the outrageous impunity that police enjoy with regard to "asset forfeiture". It's hard to believe that such abuse is allowed to continue in a country ostensibly governed by the rule of law.
- FpUser 6y agoIt is often said "we are a nation of laws". I do not recall anything about laws being just.
- sneak 6y agoGiven what we've seen happen with the CIA, I'm pretty sure that it's not even "ostensibly" any longer. The US is emphatically not a country with the rule of law, in the macro (there are large government organizations that act with impunity) or the micro (police kill and rape on a local level with impunity).