Why are they emptying their pockets without a search warrant? Likely something here I'd completely agree with you about.
My point is that I don't connect the dots on bad cops = legalize drugs, which is what seemed to be getting advocated. Completely separate issues. If drugs are legalized, the bad cop issue still isn't addressed.
You put a different bend on it, but I think you, like me, see this whole article as a red herring.
Why are they emptying their pockets without a search warrant? Likely something here I'd completely agree with you about.
My point is that I don't connect the dots on bad cops = legalize drugs, which is what seemed to be getting advocated. Completely separate issues. If drugs are legalized, the bad cop issue still isn't addressed.
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Oh, I don't condone legalizing drugs in any way shape or form. My problem is the way they are allowed to sieze property and the citized has to "prove" it is gotten by legal means later in court. Large sums of cash carried by people...to authorities that means only drug money.
As for illegal search, when pulled over in certain areas, all they need is probable cause and they can rip your vehicle apart if they choose. Large sums of cash to them is probable cause. They just ask about drugs, weapons, large sums of cash, etc.
Legalizing drugs wouldn't fully address the issue, but it would give cops - both good and bad - fewer reasons to descend on people's houses, and thus less of an opportunity to make mistakes. Millions of people keep dogs - as pets and/or for protection - and cops would still have to enter people's homes in response to domestic violence, child porn, fugitives, etc. Good cops would still make mistakes, and bad cops would still commit misdeeds, only far fewer of them.