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“S.C. Judge: Unconstitutional for Police to Seize Property Without Proving Crimes”
Uh, yeah? No kidding?
bttt
Let’s get this going all the way to SCOTUS.
Right now local & state cops are no better than Mexican cops when it comes to shake-downs.
For example,if large quantities of drugs are being sold out of a particular home and the owner(s) of that home knew about it and did nothing to stop it I can see making loss of that home as being part of a guilty plea or verdict.
But stopping a guy on the highway for a broken tail light and seizing the $5,000 in cash that he's carrying because it *might* be drug related is criminal.
They’ve enjoyed their gravy train for years. They won’t go down without a fight.
Rotten bastards.
So, our ARs and AKs are safe from beat0?
Only the IRS is entitled to take the property of citizens without due process, or even a suspicion of criminal behavior. The only “crime” that need be proven is that the property exists, and the IRS won’t tolerate competition. As onerous as the police seizures are, they don’t compare to the injustices inflicted by the federal government.
Attention red flag law states.
I’ve no problem with asset foreiture- since our Founders had no problem with it.
In certain circumstances- mostly smuggling.
But the abuse now is rampant.
‘...because the statutes
“(1) place the burden on the property owner to prove their innocence,
(2) unconstitutionally institutionally incentivizes forfeiture officials to prosecute forfeiture actions, and
(3) do not mandate judicial review or judicial authorization prior to or subsequent to the seizure.”
I might argue that the first two could apply to red flag laws.
This was always a BS policy/system paying police depts to steal from citizens. If anything the money should be used for anything BUT law enforcement.
Kind of the same logic about welfare...pay a man not to work they won’t. Pay a police dept to steal from citizens and they will.
Amazing. A judge figured this out...
No, absolutely none, asset forfeiture without a conviction in a criminal court.
The so-called War on Drugs has done more damage to our constitutional Liberties over the last 45 years than the Democrats.
Even more disgusting is the fact that it’s been pretty much a bipartisan effort to trash the Bill of Rights.
The police became the modern Highwaymen. It’s amazing it took this long to clean this up. The fact is it has affected how a lot of people see this nation for a long time. At the end of the day, as much as I’d like it 2B, this nation is no Norman Rockwell painting.
I wonder how much of that actually makes it to dept funding as much as lining the pockets of the individual officers.
Hi.
Boss Hogg is not pleased.
5.56mm
This is like ruling that the police bashing down your door, abducting your children, and selling them to human traffickers is unconstitutional.
Really?
We’re only getting this ruling now?
Fifty years after this heinous practice became commonplace?
And only in one state?
Even though this heinous practice is followed in all 50 states (57 if you’re a democrat).
About time. While I like the overall job performance of my Spartanburg county sheriff, his reliance on forfeiture without conviction had always been troubling.
Yep! Same with setting quotas to judge “performance” which creates incentives to ticket “infractions” which cannot be proved by any means other than the say so of the cop writing the citation. Lots of abuse.