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Because cops get to drive around in sports cars repainted black and white. Every Corvette squad car you've ever seen out on the highway is one of those. I'd bet
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
Because cops get to drive around in sports cars repainted black and white. Every Corvette squad car you've ever seen out on the highway is one of those. I'd bet money that some large fraction of the world's largest television screens reside within police station break rooms, too.
Police unions don't play around either. If a politician were to play hardball, some small town or another would just go without a police force at all until it cried uncle, anyone at the state level trying it would simply see insane amounts of cash dumped on their rivals' campaigns and lose, and Congress can't even muster up the ambition to pass feel-good-do-nothing resolutions on its best day, not even one of which we've had since either of us became adults.
- whythre 3y agoYou act like this is just city level. That would still be a relatively easy fix. But federal organizations like the FBI routinely benefit from asset forfeiture. People traveling with large amounts of cash for any reason are a common target. And if you think TVs are are something, imagine the hauls from a large scale federal bust.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago> But federal organizations like the FBI routinely benefit from asset forfeiture. Oh, but that's a little different. Worse of course, not different for the better. As states do prohibit asset forfeiture, the FBI can dangle it back in front of the locals with their "sharing" program. It's the federal government interfering with state sovereignty to undermine it. They've soft-federalized every single municipal police department and every sheriff's office in one fell swoop.