[Red Badger]

That’s no assurance of safety either, since cops can take your stuff and you can’t even appeal it..................

[tomkat]

You make a fair point.
I should've gone ahead and added the addendum I was considering:

.. but at this stage of life, I just usually don't go.

[baltimorepoet]

I always wonder what the cops would do if they confiscated another innocent person’s stuff, and then one time, an angry flash mob of hundreds of heavily armed people descends upon the police station to seize the items back and give them back to their rightful owner?