You're forgetting that a dog "alert" on a vehicle provides probable cause. If an officer suspects someone in a car has cash, here's the algorithm to get probabl

You're forgetting that a dog "alert" on a vehicle provides probable cause. If an officer suspects someone in a car has cash, here's the algorithm to get probable cause every time. - Pull car over for x (x=illegal lane change, minor speeding, tinted windows) - "Smell" oder of marijuana and notice driver acting suspicious - Call for K9 unit - Coax the dog into "alerting" on some portion of the car, usually the front where the cameras don't see. Once the K9 alerts, you have probable cause to search the vehicle even if the owner does not consent to the search. Cash you find, you can take, even if there are no drugs found. The owner of the cash must be able to legitimately explain why they have $10k in cash and burden is on the owner to prove that it is legit cash. That's very hard to do, even for a legitimate business or someone who deals in a lot of cash like a dancer. This is a civil, not a criminal matter and the burden of proof is actually on the defendant. Even with the above algorithm, if a judge declares a stop to be illegal, the cash is still kept as it's not a criminal manner but a civil one. |Edited to be less flippant