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By taking everything you've got and more, locking you up for decades, fraudulently seizing foreign properties, and all without a lawyer, in a language you don't

by mcv 5y ago

By taking everything you've got and more, locking you up for decades, fraudulently seizing foreign properties, and all without a lawyer, in a language you don't know. I don't doubt the US legal systems has many problems, but I think it's still on a completely different scale than this.

mschuster91 5y ago
There have been instances of local police departments making a fucking contest on who could seize the most money on the next highway [1] from people just passing through. In total, it's many dozens of billions of dollars [2] - in 2015 there was more property being seized by police than taken from people by burglars [3] ffs. The scale of "civil forfeiture" by corrupt and/or greedy cops in the US is mind-boggling. [1]: https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/in-depth/news/taken/2019/01/27/civil-forfeiture-south-carolina-police-property-seizures-taken-exclusive-investigation/2457838002/ https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/in-depth/news/taken/2019/01/... [2]: https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/ https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeitu... [3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...