Police Funding Themselves

[drbrumley]

By Confiscating People’s Property.

The government is using Civil Asset Forfeiture to simply rob people. The numbers are in for Texas alone. The police department stole $50 million in confiscations during 2017 when nobody was ever charged with a crime. They hate to publish these numbers because they know they are doing something unethical. They seize property and it is the PROPERTY that is PRESUMED to be guilty. The burden is on you to get a lawyer and pay all the expenses to try to get your property back. You will not be reimbursed for the legal fees so they know they just get away with it. This is part of the financial crisis we are in that will ultimately lead to revolution and the collapse of the United States probably in the aftermath of 2032.

 

[ok doser]

makes it easy for people to hate LE

 

[drbrumley]

makes it easy for people to hate LE

Indeed...

 

[genuineoriginal]

AMENDMENT V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. AMENDMENT XIV SECTION 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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[ok doser]

AMENDMENT V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. AMENDMENT XIV SECTION 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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their meaning can be found if you have the resources to hire a good lawyer and fight for it


any judge who allows this should be removed from office

and executed :banana:

 

[Kit the Coyote]

It is pretty amazing the means they go through to get around those amendments. What they do is separate the confiscated items from their owners by a legal fiction that the item itself is guilty of a crime. Thus you get silly court case names like State of Texas v 10,000 dollars in cash. As Dozer correctly points out, they are counting on people not being able to hire a good enough lawyer to fight it.