Dallas Cops Brag About Civil Forfeiture and Get Owned on Social Media

[jimnyc]

Unless they have proof of some form of crime, then these forfeitures are bullshit. Many of these taking place and no one arrested for anything.

And if that pisses you off, it reminds me of the video of a veteran being robbed by them - video below.

revelarts - I thought you would appreciate this, or hate it as much as I do.

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Dallas Cops Brag About Civil Forfeiture and Get Owned on Social Media

Civil forfeiture is not a popular government activity. For those of you who don’t know, civil asset forfeiture according to the ACLU “allows police to seize — and then keep or sell — any property they allege is involved in a crime. Owners need not ever be arrested or convicted of a crime for their cash, cars, or even real estate to be taken away permanently by the government.”

If that sounds crazy to you, I assure you, it’s real. I don’t know how it’s real, because it’s certainly not constitutional—who needs the Fourth Amendment, am I right?— but it is real.

The Dallas Police Department stepped in a hornet’s nest on social media when they posted a braggadocious photo of a seizure of $100,000 in cash. Police confiscated the haul at Dallas Love Field Airport and then posted the photo on social media. The local CBS station picked it up and wrote a glowing article about it. I guess they thought the photo of an adorable German Shepherd (good boi!) standing over piles of cash he found with his incredibly smart and furry nose would make everyone forget that the police just robbed someone…legally. It didn’t work.

https://i.imgur.com/ZXP6UnC.png

The accompanying report indicated that the woman was not arrested for anything—police couldn’t find a crime—but they took her money anyway. If she wants it back, she’s going to have to spend the next decade in court fighting and probably spend more than $100,000 on lawyers. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance…


On December 2 the canine — named ‘Ballentine’ — alerted on an individual checked suitcase. It turns out the bag, that belonged to 25-year-old woman from Chicago who was on a layover at the airport, contained blankets and two large bubble envelopes filled with $106,829 in cash.

The woman who owned the bag was not arrested, but the money was seized and police say it will be subject to the civil asset forfeiture process.

Rest - https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/12/08/epic-ratio-dallas-cops-brag-about-civil-forfeiture-and-get-owned-on-social-media-n1540068


This guy taken for his life savings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs

[revelarts]

crazy

'But the law was just supposed to stop those "drug dealers". why would anyone just carry all that cash?!? '
It's really none of our biz.
cash is not illegal ...yet.

I think more and more folks are starting to pick up on the fact that giving gov't broader and broader powers "to get the" -fill-in-the-blank- bad guy is not such a good thing.

limited constitutional government.
yes, it leaves some holes that might not be able to be filled as quickly,
but the alternative is an overbearing legal gov't corruption.
Personally if i have to choose I prefer the idea of random criminals committing crimes rather than, gov't committing crimes under the cover of law.

[tailfins]

crazy

'But the law was just supposed to stop those "drug dealers". why would anyone just carry all that cash?!? '
It's really none of our biz.
cash is not illegal ...yet.

I think more and more folks are starting to pick up on the fact that giving gov't broader and broader powers "to get the" -fill-in-the-blank- bad guy is not such a good thing.

limited constitutional government.
yes, it leaves some holes that might not be able to be filled as quickly,
but the alternative is an overbearing legal gov't corruption.
Personally if i have to choose I prefer the idea of random criminals committing crimes rather than, gov't committing crimes under the cover of law.


Losing faith in our institutions is reason enough. People in our parents generation often kept money in the mattress because they didn't trust banks.

[jimnyc]

crazy

'But the law was just supposed to stop those "drug dealers". why would anyone just carry all that cash?!? '
It's really none of our biz.
cash is not illegal ...yet.

I think more and more folks are starting to pick up on the fact that giving gov't broader and broader powers "to get the" -fill-in-the-blank- bad guy is not such a good thing.

limited constitutional government.
yes, it leaves some holes that might not be able to be filled as quickly,
but the alternative is an overbearing legal gov't corruption.
Personally if i have to choose I prefer the idea of random criminals committing crimes rather than, gov't committing crimes under the cover of law.


So the officers argument would be that the money tested positive for cocaine and therefore is illicit money likely ill gotten gains. Never mind the fact that they have zero proof of that, just residue found on the US currency bills. But damn, if its testing positive for cocaine, then when and how did it get the residue on the $$? I mean, what's the odds of that happening?

The below gives a pretty good evidence of how it may have happened. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills

If you live in the United States or Canada, chances are you have cocaine in your wallet.

Nearly nine out of ten bills circulating in the U.S. and its northern neighbor are tainted with cocaine, according to what's being called the most definitive research to date on the subject.

Rest - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-on-money-drug-found-on-90-of-us-bills


How Much Us Currency Has Cocaine Residue On It?

A total of 92% of the bills in the United States were positive for cocaine, with a mean of 28. 75 ± 139. An average bill contains 7 micrograms, or 1 gram per bill. There is a range of 0 to 37 grams per bill, and 37 to 37 grams per bill. 01-922. Each bill contains 72 grams of sugar.

Rest - https://www.lietaer.com/2021/12/how-much-us-currency-has-cocaine-residue-on-it/


New study finds that 90% of U.S. currency has cocaine residue on it

Your money needs laundering.

A new study found that almost all the bank notes in circulation in this country are contaminated with cocaine.

An average of about 85% of US greenbacks had traces of the drug - up 20% since the same team did a similar study two years ago.

Rest - https://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/90-u-s-money-cocaine-study-article-1.401382


Contaminated currency

Most banknotes have traces of cocaine on them; this has been confirmed by studies done in several countries.[1] In 1994, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that in Los Angeles, out of every four banknotes, on average more than three are tainted by cocaine or another illicit drug.

Rest - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency


90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine
Story Highlights
100 percent of bills from a few large urban areas tested positive for cocaine
Amount of cocaine on money is not enough to cause health risks
Money can be contaminated by being put in counting machines with tainted bills

Rest - https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/


Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S. Currency

For cocaine users, a rolled up $20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug. Or so it would seem from a new analysis of 234 banknotes from 18 U.S. cities that found cocaine on 90 percent of the bills tested.

Perhaps that's not surprising given that the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that more than 2 million Americans used cocaine in 2007, which has been linked to ill effects ranging from debilitating addiction to heart attacks. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for its part, reported in the same year that 6 million Americans admit using cocaine annually, consuming a total of as much as 457 metric tons in a year.

"Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant and one of the most commonly abused illicit drugs in the world," says chemist Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who conducted the tests and presented the findings today at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society, which is taking place in Washington, D.C. That city ranked highest in the survey—95 percent of the sampled bills there bore cocaine contamination—along with Baltimore, Boston and Detroit. Salt Lake City had the lowest average levels of contamination. "The examination of cocaine contamination on paper money can provide objective and timely epidemiological information about cocaine abuse in individual communities," Zuo argues.

Rest - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cocaine-contaminates-majority-of-american-currency/

[Hot Dogger]

"Civil forfeiture" is a huge scam. Make me president and it ends immediately after I take the oath.

[jimnyc]

"Civil forfeiture" is a huge scam. Make me president and it ends immediately after I take the oath.

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[Hot Dogger]

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Say what you will, just so long as I have your vote, thank you. You have a beautiful cat BTW.

[jimnyc]

Say what you will, just so long as I have your vote, thank you. You have a beautiful cat BTW.

Thank you, that's "Nero".

If you run, then I will be the first one in line to vote that day. :thumb: