USA: Civil asset forfeiture - your guide to policing for fun and profit - [PEACE]

[Zenaan Harkness]

Straight outta the modern regime of empire, USA: Civil asset
forfeiture - your guide to policing for fun and profit - if you're a
USA police officer that is.

Is there any wonder the USA is struggling to feign anything even
remotely resembling a moral high ground?

Also, a solid ground of outright tyranny and why the USA must fall.

Of course chaos is the intention of (((TPTB))) - the federal reserve
banker cabal, who were hoping to prance in under the radar of chaotic
civil something and institute some new USA or possibly pan-American
currency.

Remember the Fed!



  Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted
  American Law Enforcement
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-23/policing-profit-how-civil-asset-forfeiture-has-perverted-american-law-enforcement
  https://ammo.com/articles/civil-asset-forfeiture-policing-for-profit

  … It’s called civil asset forfeiture and it’s a multi-billion
  dollar piggybank for state, local and federal police departments to
  fund all sorts of pet projects.

  … contemporary civil asset forfeiture begins right where you’d
  think that it would: The War on Drugs.

  … the criminalization of American life and asset forfeiture have
  continued to feed each other.

  … In sum, asset forfeiture creates a motivation to draft more laws
  by the legislature, while more laws create greater opportunities
  for seizure by law enforcement. This perverse incentive structure
  is having devastating consequences: In 2014 alone, law enforcement
  took more stuff from American citizens than burglars did.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/

  The current state of civil asset forfeiture in the United States is
  one of almost naked tyranny.
  https://ammo.com/articles/democide-hitler-stalin-mao-state-violence-guide
  …

  The Origins of Civil Asset Forfeiture …

  … In 1984, civil asset forfeiture entered a new phase. The
  Comprehensive Crime Control Act, championed by then-President
  Ronald Reagan, allowed for police agencies to keep the assets they
  seized. This highly incentivized the seizure of assets for the
  purpose of funding police departments rather than pursuing criminal
  charges. However, the game changed completely in 1996 – the year of
  the landmark Supreme Court decision Bennis v. Michigan(516 U.S.
  442). This ruling held that the innocent owner defense was not
  sufficient to recover assets seized during civil asset forfeiture.…

  Civil Asset Forfeiture: Big Business For Police

  To say that police departments are funding themselves with civil
  asset forfeiture is more true than you might think. Civil asset
  forfeiture has exploded since 1986, when total seizures were at
  $93.7 million. By 2005, this had passed the $1 billion mark. That
  was double the 2004 amount, $567 million. By 2010, this figure
  jumped to $2.5 billion with more than 15,000 forfeiture cases –
  11,000 of which were civil, not criminal.
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512253265073870

  By 2014, this figure climbed to $4.5 billion, with $29 billion
  seized between 2001 and 2014. Between 1985 and 1991, federal
  forfeitures increased by 1,500 percent, an increase of over 26
  times. The Justice Department’s forfeiture fund (that does not
  include customs forfeitures) ballooned from $27 million in 1985 to
  $644 million in 1991. By 1996, this fund grew to over $1 billion
  for the first time. By 2008, it had tripled again to $3.1 billion.
  https://www.forbes.com/2011/06/08/property-civil-forfeiture.html

  Cash seizures in Tennessee have gotten so widespread that the state
  legislature has begun investigating it. Traffic stops have turned
  into shakedown operations. Interstate 40 was described as “a major
  profit center” by Phil Williams, a reporter for Channel 5 in
  Nashville. Much like extra-legal gangs, police gangs in Tennessee
  have started engaging in turf warfare over the spoils of civil
  asset forfeiture. The Dixon Interdiction Enforcement (DICE) and the
  23rd Judicial District Drug Taskforce were caught on video trying
  to cut one another off in their vehicles to stop civilians and
  search for cash. Indeed, officers were in danger of losing their
  jobs if they didn’t seize enough cash. The head of DICE admitted
  that it was funded entirely by civil asset forfeiture cash.

  …

  …

  Sheriff’s deputies in Campbell County, TN tortured a suspect until
  he agreed to sign over his assets.
  http://archive.knoxnews.com/news/state/civil-rights-lawsuits-tossed-in-torture-of-campbell-drug-dealer-ep-360276252-356782081.html/

  In El Monte, CA, narcotics officers shot a 65-year-old grandfather
  as he knelt beside his bed. They then seized his life savings and
  hauled his family in for questioning before admitting that no one
  had any connection to the drug trade.
  http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/28/news/mn-4413

  Police in Bradenton, FL have a longstanding policy of coercing drug
  suspects into signing over their assets.
  https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20061022/News/605240344/SH/

  In many municipalities, it is policy to seize vehicles from
  intoxicated drivers who have had no criminal trial.

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