[digital-rights-activism] Oklahoma Police and your money!

[Rayzer]

On 06/10/2016 06:22 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 04:13:16AM -0500, Cryptobits wrote:
>> > It's easier to lose all your money in Oklahoma than it is in Las Vegas!
>> >⋅
>> > https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/oklahoma-police-can-seize-your-entire-bank-account-on-a-traffic-stop-without-any-charges-at-all/

In SOME PLACES they do that, or if they can't, they JAIL YOU (Ferguson,
Mo is classic...)

In California they go one better. All municipal infractions without
criminal penalties are turned over to a state-mandated private
collection agency and the municipalities receive a percentage of the
value of the tickets. The collection agency then duns you for two years
trying to collect then turns them over to the state IRS (Franchise Tax
Board) which pays them the uncollected amount.

Now... apply that to a houseless jobless person, and there has to be
hundreds of thousands, literally, in California, with zero ability to
pay sometime HUNDREDS of camping and other nuisance ordinance tickets
they might receive over the years. Besides the harassment value of
writing those tickets which is repaid to the municipality by the
collection agency on receipt, the state's taxpayers pay for the cost of
the ticket, and that money is locked into the judicial-law enforcement
industrial complex instead of being used to, lets say, build low cost
and affordable housing. Providing job development, re-integration
services etc.

Rr


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