Article from Reason by Zuri Davis.
A new report uncovers a shocking civil asset forfeiture practice that allowed Missouri police to seize at least $2.6 million during traffic stops in a single year.
As part of a larger series on national asset forfeiture cases organized by the Pulitzer Center, St. Louis Public Radio reported that St. Charles County law enforcement coerced at least 39 unsuspecting motorists into signing over their assets in 2018.
According to the report, officers would lie in wait for a car committing a minor traffic violation. Upon seeing the minor violation, officers would then pull the car over, question the motorist, and then direct them to a private towing lot owned by Superior Towing. While in the lot, officers would ask more questions and search the vehicle, all in the hopes of finding large amounts of cash or connections to drugs.
If a trained police dog smelled marijuana on the cash, officers then gave the motorists two options: they could go to jail, or sign their possessions away to the department and leave with a traffic ticket.
None of the 39 documented motorists were charged.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Stealing from the motoring public is standard fare for the various Gestapo in the country. It is called “policing for profit”. Most of the time they just want to keep their coffers filled with ridiculous fines for trivial violations of the traffic regulations. But whenever they find any significant amount of cash on someone, they often manage to steal it. The so called “civil forfeture” laws are just justifications for grand theft by the cops.
Those people must be trump supporters with
Make America great hates on.
Nah, probably barry soetoro’s gay lovers.
Only thing hateful is racist & bigoted history of Democrat Party. Dems put the hate on for Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Philippines, and Hispanics in general.
Look in a mirror, child, at a fool. This crap has been going on far longer than trumps been around with a variety of schemes and it’s gotten worse with laws allowing property confiscation……AND it’s in Dem controlled areas.
How old are you snowflake?