Indiana police use state law to steal money without cause
eu.indystar.com
This isn’t crime fighting. It’s an actual crime — a blatant, naked theft carried out by officers, Libertarian Party Chair Evan McMahon writes.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13145612

(edit) Would someone please ship some counterfeit money through there and get it confiscated, so the police can then be investigated for spending counterfeit money?

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s not illegal. It’s also not illegal for the police to claim it’s criminal profits and seize it. The courts decided your money, (and other property), does not enjoy the same rights you do. So you have a right against search and seizure but your money and other property does not. This does three things. It opens your stuff up to be seized without a warrant, it makes it a civil case to get your stuff back, and you have to prove you’re not a criminal and your stuff wasn’t used by criminals.

    It is absolutely unconstitutional on the grounds that it’s a naked evasion of our 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights. But good luck explaining that to the guys with the guns.

            • Mango@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              More people like me need balls. Especially me. More importantly, I need to be armed and can’t just go buy at a store because of them.

              • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 months ago

                By the time you have enough buy in to seriously threaten the cops in an area, you also have enough buy in to just elect politicians that will disarm them.

                • Mango@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I don’t think you understand just how outnumbered they are and how disadvantaged they are standing out so much.

                  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    2 months ago

                    No I know that. But you have to get X amount of people to be willing to do something. It so happens that amount is almost always enough to also enforce reforms and oversight on the police. Making violence unnecessary and counter productive.