So only one state has adequate protections in place for this predatory and immoral form of “policing”. But even the Feds can do this if they feel like it. So it’s a precarious and very unfair situation for the pesky citizen.
The L.A. District Attorney had a freaking seminar on what kinds of products to target(steal) from innocent civilians who were guilty of no crime when they were casing merchandise during an investigation[usually an illegal one]. These incentives were even built into the city budget! I’m sure implemented with quotas and highly questionable police reports to go along with these questionable confiscations of property. This practice is rampant. Protecting the average citizen from abuses like these were basic and instrumental to the Magna Carta and the first English Bill of Rights was designed to shield the public from institutionalized crimes like these.
So would anymore states like to step up and look into doing something about this on your own turf? This is theft. Plain and simple. I’m going to send my state Legislators a letter about this matter. They’ve been surprisingly good about at least acting like they are reading my emails whenever I’ve emailed them in the past.
It’s insane that the police decided they weren’t going to enforce these new laws and they had to get rung up in court like the mob syndicate of gay-porn filming rats they are.
Civil Forfeiture doesn’t encourage crime in any way. The statistical analysis proves this. The cops are just butt hurt that they cannot steal from people as easily as they used to. “New Study Finds Forfeiture Doesn’t Fight Crime, Is Used to Raise Revenue“(VIDEO BELOW)
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Caniglia v. Strom, a case about the “community caretaking” exception to the general principle that police need a warrant before entering a home. In today’s episode, we talk about what the government and the property owner argued in that case and what the Court ruled. We also dig into the history of the community caretaking doctrine and the biggest current threats to Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure.
