Civil Forfeiture
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ok I was reading cracked.com and this shit caught my eye:
So that bolded part is pretty fucked up eh? What the hell happened to innocent until proven guilty? When did that turn into 'guilty for another's crime'?? This whole thing is making my fuckin head spin, anyway discuss.
from Cracked wrote:Imagine you had your car stolen, but then fortune smiles upon you and the cops find it after the thief used it to smuggle 200 pounds of cocaine across the border, running over 30 children in the process while sexually assaulting the car itself.
You realize you're going to need to get all of its fluids replaced from a mechanic with a soft voice and gentle hands, but you still want it back, because hey, it's your car, right?
Yeeeah, there's some bad news: It has been sold to buy a new espresso machine for the station's break room.
It's called civil asset forfeiture. You probably already have heard of something like this, where the police get to seize the car and house of some drug kingpin and stick the money in the department's budget (that's criminal forfeiture).
But then there's this loophole where the police can seize anything they suspect has been used in a crime, even if it doesn't belong to the criminal, and even if there hasn't been a conviction.
"Let's take the jet. Those bootlegged DVDs from China had to get here somehow."
Then if you, as the actual owner of the goods, try to challenge it, the burden of proof is on you to prove you didn't know it was going to be used in a crime. That's civil forfeiture.
For the police, there is no legal requirement to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that, say, your TV set was once used by a ring of Dutch pedophiles to view kiddie porn. They can simply take it, without ever giving it back, even if they never formally charge anyone for a crime.
You're Shitting Me!
In 2004, Zaher El-Ali, a Jordanian immigrant and U.S. citizen, sold a truck to a man who agreed to pay for it in installments. Before he could finish the payments though, the man was arrested for drunk driving and the truck was seized. Seeing as the car still legally belonged to Zaher (he still had the title), he demanded it back. The police refused, and possibly laughed.
Because civil forfeitures are so simple, over 40 percent of police executives admitted their budgets depend on cash from them. That means each year, those stations have a quota of forfeitures to fill and technically there is really no stopping them from filling it with YOUR Xbox.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18620_6-completely-legal-ways-cops-can-screw-you.html#ixzz0tV6IXZYW
So that bolded part is pretty fucked up eh? What the hell happened to innocent until proven guilty? When did that turn into 'guilty for another's crime'?? This whole thing is making my fuckin head spin, anyway discuss.
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I imagine this is another way crooked cops line their pockets.
Yes you are. :mad:
:facepalm:
You know reaching for a donut is a hard job. :rolleyes:
Some of them actually are, but the vast majority are pieces of shit riding the rainbow courtesy of the uniform.
fixed?
I think rape is profit, sir.