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I'm curious at the legal principle which permits confiscating private property without charge.
by dTal 5y ago
I'm curious at the legal principle which permits confiscating private property without charge.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
- smcl 5y agoThis happens all the time, property gets seized at the merest suspicion of crime (whether or not it was actually prosecuted) and is often not returned. Jon Oliver did a piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
- blamazon 5y agoAs the other commenters pointed out, this is established legal principle in USA. The police will even gleefully crush with a bulldozer such property: https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/732628652949639168 https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/73262865294963916...