cops in america are legally allowed to take people’s property (including large sums of money) purely because they feel like it. it’s called civil forfeiture and there are literally thousands of cases of pigs taking people’s property. that is looting.
i watched this happen to my roommate after the cops kicked our doors in at 6 AM on a weekday for a no-knock raid that, surprise surprise, didn’t turn out anything. they opened his wallet in front of him, took out about $300 and told him that since they had no record of where it came from on premises, that they’d have to take it from him. they took this man’s rent money right in front of him while he was in cuffs and told him “too bad”.
there was also a friend’s car in our drive way that had broken down so they left it over night. the doors were locked and the windows were up, and since the owner wasn’t there, they decided it’d be cool to just bust in all the windows to perform another fruitless search.
In Philly it’s been a HUGE and MASSIVE problem with cops taking people’s bank accounts, cars, electronics and pretty much anything worth any amount of money under a law that lets the DA seize property they think is related to a crime. “Related’ is a vague term though. They once forced a women and her grandchildren out of her home to sell it at auction because her son was found by police with $20 worth of weed.
(Depending on the property in question it can go under Civil Property Seizure or Seize and Seal, they’re not the same law but they work the same)
They don’t have to prove it’s related to a crime before or after, and even if the person suspected of the crime is cleared at questioning or acquitted at trial, you have to go through a MONTHS long process of court appearances (you can’t miss one or be late or you lose, no rescheduling) in hopes that they MIGHT get their stuff back. Most don’t.
Most people don’t think it’s worth the expense of days missed at work and a lawyer to get back a couple hundred dollars or whatever else the police stole. The city makes MILLIONS of dollars each year off this, around $6-10 (The DA doesn’t provide figures)
This bill, introduced by Rand Paul, guarantees that people who are the victims of civil asset forfeiture have a right to a lawyer, and also redirects all funds gained through it to the US Treasury, to discourage police departments from using civil asset forfeiture for financial gain.
Screw the pigs.
All cops are bastards. Every. Single. One. Fuck the police.
Didn’t one cop department use the money gained for a margarita slushee machine?
It Time for Black People to Start Wearing Our Own Body Cameras. Black
people, themselves, would benefit from wearing cams, capturing whatever
happens in their life, for example, any while black issues black people
daily encounter should be on camera
And also to people who say “LOL white supremacist neo-Nazi groups are powerless”
NO THEY’RE FUCKING NOT YOU DOUCHNOZZLES WE WOULDN’T BE WORRIED ABOUT THEM IF THEY WERE
There’s always been white supremacists in law enforcement this is a centuries old plague since slavery days. Black people been known
The police force in its inception Was made up initially of former government slave catchers. When slavery was abolished, they just changed up the name to police.
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