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Try transporting $50,000 of cash within the US--if you get caught, the money is confiscated. In the US, no conviction is required to confiscate presumed drug ca
by genwin 13y ago
Try transporting $50,000 of cash within the US--if you get caught, the money is confiscated. In the US, no conviction is required to confiscate presumed drug cash. The police dept. gets to spend it.
- MichaelGG 13y agoDoesn't need to be that much, or even have drugs. $3700 is enough for thieving police: http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/easy-money-civil-asset-forfeiture-abuse-police http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/easy-money-civi... Police regularly abuse forfeiture. It's a horrible and very un-American thing they have going on. Yet because the money ends up in the police pockets, there's little incentive to fix the law. http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/10/why-asset-forfeiture-abuse-is-on-the-ris http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/10/why-asset-forfeiture-a...