re: How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage, and a church

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they brought out a drug-sniffing dog, which alerted on the car.

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Such bullshite, they train them to false alert. Should be considered animal cruelty and abolished.

Didn't Tennessee recently pass a law, basically making it ok to steal from anyone who has large sum of cash on them.

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Such bullshite, they train them to false alert. Should be considered animal cruelty and abolished.

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You should look up Lex the drug dog- with a 90+% hit rate on "finding" drugs.

WashPo

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U.S. v. Bentley, we see just how damaging the Harris decision really was. Lex, the drug dog that searched Bentley’s car, had a 93 percent alert rate. That is, when Lex was called to search a car, he alerted 93 percent of the time. He was basically a probable cause generator. 

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Didn't Tennessee recently pass a law, basically making it ok to steal from anyone who has large sum of cash on them.

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Not sure, but there are a ton of protocols and headaches that get in the way when trying to carry/use that much cash. The biggest issue is tax evasion/money laundering, not really proceeds from drugs, but that reason is brought up the most because it gets the most public support.

Personally, the tax evasion is the part that frustrates me the most, but from a macro standpoint, the "guilty until proven innocent" characteristic of civil asset forfeiture is abhorrent. I've argued in these threads before that I believe it happens to bad people more often than not, but it doesn't make it right.

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do realize, that the cops, individually get none of that cash, right?

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That's not exactly true- a lot of places get their salaries from "drug seizures", also bonuses are sometimes paid to officers that have the most seizures.

Sure you could say they aren't paid directly, but the money seized often goes to either the DA or toward the next year's budget. Hell last year there were stories of Oklahoma DA's driving around town in seized vehicles, using forfeiture funds to pay off law school loans, and finally DA's living out of seized homes indefinitely . It's pretty crooked.

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All things considered, I doubt he had a broken tail light

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Probably right. Apparently that kind of sarcasm doesn't go over well unless you're LucasP.

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That's not exactly true- a lot of places get their salaries from "drug seizures", also bonuses are sometimes paid to officers that have the most seizures.

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these, are places that shouldn't have a Police force and should have City/County/State take over.

If you cannot support your PD, with City money, then you need to let some one else take over.

Ur example is how this really can get ugly. Hell, u could have tellers tip off the cops. etc

this isn't a good cop/bad cop situation

this is a "bad policy" situation caused by expansive government. government is bad, m'kay

I brought 30k with me to Laffy a few weeks back to purchase a car. Let's not act like only drug dealers carry around large amounts of cash

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Hell, u could have tellers tip off the cops. etc

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Actually that happens too. It's actually required by law now I believe. Here's a different incident...

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The federal agents then showed McLellan paperwork that included deposits to the store’s account at Lumbee Guaranty Bank. The statements showed two deposits made within a 24-hour period totaling $11,400.

The statements, they said, indicated he had a history of consistent cash deposits of less than $10,000, which is illegal.

Then, the agents told the small business owner something that shook him to his core: The Internal Revenue Service had seized all of the money in L&M’s bank account: $107,702.66.

“‘Are you telling me you took my money?’” McLellan recalled asking the agents. “I didn’t understand what was going on. They dropped a bomb on me. I was lost for five to 10 minutes. I can’t believe that y’all guys can walk in here and tell me y’all took every bit of my money out of the bank.”

After law enforcement cleared McLellan’s store, he drove to Lumbee Guaranty Bank. The agents had been there hours earlier and emptied his account, McLellan recalled, walking out of the building with a cashier’s check

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