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What is crime adjacent that isn't criminal activity?

inlined 4y ago
Large amounts of money being sent through tumblers is definitely suspicious. Or spending more money than reported income.
hedora 4y ago
Apparently, joining a police deputy gang, falsifying evidence trails and murdering civilians is OK, at least in L.A.: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating-50-year-old-police-gangs-finally-2022-03-30/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating... I think pocketing any unlockable crypto-wallets you found along the way would cross the line. You could stick them into civil forfeiture and use the resulting cash to upgrade your department-owned car though.
from 4y ago
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/download https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/dow...
Xorakios 4y ago
Most famous right now? Breonna Taylor (2020) - Louisville, Kentucky: Police officers entered the wrong apartment using a no-knock warrant, which led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician. Eurie Stamps Sr. (2011) - Framingham, Massachusetts: Police raided the wrong apartment, and during the operation, an officer's gun "accidentally discharged," killing Eurie Stamps Sr., a 68-year-old grandfather. As many have mentioned above, civil forfeiture cases for carrying cash are rare, but devastating to people who are originally from countries/cultures that don't trust banks or police. And of course "swatting" such as https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-woman-sentenced-for-swatting-calls-that-led-to-deadly-police-raid/ https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-woman-sentenced-for-swa...
- jacquesm 4y ago
  That's not what was meant with 'crime adjacent'.
  - vertis 4y ago
    Heh, it's a literal meaning of crime adjacent (presuming that the person in the actual target apartment was actually guilty). I suspect anyone that was an early adopter of crypto is somewhat considered crime adjacent because so much of the early usage was silk road. For a while after MtGox was hacked I used BTC-e (yes, I lost money in MtGox). It was later discovered(alleged?) that the operators of BTC-e were involved in laundering money for the MtGox hack[0]. I guess my very presence in that case would be considered crime adjacent. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e

Large amounts of money being sent through tumblers is definitely suspicious. Or spending more money than reported income.

hedora 4y ago

Apparently, joining a police deputy gang, falsifying evidence trails and murdering civilians is OK, at least in L.A.: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating-50-year-old-police-gangs-finally-2022-03-30/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating... I think pocketing any unlockable crypto-wallets you found along the way would cross the line. You could stick them into civil forfeiture and use the resulting cash to upgrade your department-owned car though.

from 4y ago

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/download https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/dow...

Xorakios 4y ago

Most famous right now? Breonna Taylor (2020) - Louisville, Kentucky: Police officers entered the wrong apartment using a no-knock warrant, which led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician. Eurie Stamps Sr. (2011) - Framingham, Massachusetts: Police raided the wrong apartment, and during the operation, an officer's gun "accidentally discharged," killing Eurie Stamps Sr., a 68-year-old grandfather. As many have mentioned above, civil forfeiture cases for carrying cash are rare, but devastating to people who are originally from countries/cultures that don't trust banks or police. And of course "swatting" such as https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-woman-sentenced-for-swatting-calls-that-led-to-deadly-police-raid/ https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-woman-sentenced-for-swa...

jacquesm 4y ago
That's not what was meant with 'crime adjacent'.
- vertis 4y ago
  Heh, it's a literal meaning of crime adjacent (presuming that the person in the actual target apartment was actually guilty). I suspect anyone that was an early adopter of crypto is somewhat considered crime adjacent because so much of the early usage was silk road. For a while after MtGox was hacked I used BTC-e (yes, I lost money in MtGox). It was later discovered(alleged?) that the operators of BTC-e were involved in laundering money for the MtGox hack[0]. I guess my very presence in that case would be considered crime adjacent. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e