Forfeiture Abuse: Even Your Drums Aren't Safe From the Police

Can you DIGG it? http://iam.ij.org/ht6aQJ

Forfeiture abuse in action: Cops caught on tape discussing on how much property they can take from a house due to tiny amount of marijuana found.

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[carolm62]

Holy crap! I hope these evil cops go to jail with people they arrested!

[ModernPlague]

The War on Drugs causes more problems than the drugs themselves

but it makes people large amounts of money, once it's illegal!

That drives the price up, and the government & police know it.

It's all a racket, just like everything else in America, these days...

[Oshyrath]

Now I can't enjoy a nice walk in the park with my drums without worrying about someone taking them.

[PostiveMindBodySoul]

I caught smoking in public and since I broke the smoking band they can confiscate my clothes, jewelry, cash and my smart phone. But a bill to congress or senate to make smoking bans illegal!

[1978atcarroll]

0:46 "they based the search on an anonymous tip"... I thought the 4th amendment stated that no warrant shall issue except upon oath or affirmation? how can "an anonymous tip" be an oath or affirmation?

[Praxics]

fucking cops...we need to give cops extra punishment if they break the law for. abusive power.

[k9bambam]

Hey jw12crotchscratch, don't be a hater dude!!!! You don't have to trace my account - come meet me yourself - I'm sure if you troll along Detroit's north border I'll find you first... and I haven't had a donut since I got out of the police academy 16 years ago - too busy in the gym thinking of how to F with ignorant trash like you - thats an original joke - you think of that yourself??? R/E corporate masters, I don't see a dime of the money I seize dick-head, but I did just get a new K9 truck!

[jw12yrsctch]

What a pig, stole $200 from someone, better hope no one can trace this account, law breaking swine. Thanks for giving us another example of pathetic pigs working for those corporate masters. Do you have to pray to CEOs before your shift at the doughnut shop? I bet a life of picking on pot smokers and eating doughnuts is so hard.

[newgirl2u2]

What a bunch of Asses to just take property. How awful!

[777ech]

Wow. There is some logic for ya. I'm sure that the warrants were unrelated to drugs and the amount of pot was obviousely less than a felony so basically you saying you took money that was not really the proceeds of illegal activity. Therefore your admitting that you stole $200 from the man and that he is actually lucky that you didn't steal more.

[k9bambam]

The other day I locked up a guy for warrants and no driver's license - found some weed in his glove box - he was begging me to drive him to his house so he could get $2,000 cash he had stashed away to help pay for his bond - if I was that bad, I would have done it, then served him with his forfeiture papers at the police station... trust me, i thought about it... but I didnt.... I told him I couldnt drive him home..... instead I seized the $200 he already had on him and told him he was lucky!

[boxant]

Fight abuse, record the state.