Civil Asset Forfeiture... Taken beyond reasonable...

[rondog]

I'd like to take a bunch of my guns and ammo back to OK to show 'em off to my brothers and friends, and do some shooting. Not now though, HELL no! I'd be damned nervous just CCW'ing back there, reciprocity agreements or not.

And I believe OHP occifers DO wear brown shirts.....

[asmo]

The more I think about this, the more I wonder of it is click bait of some sort. I don't run in criminal circles so maybe I don't know, but I just can't imagine how a traffic stop leads to checking your bank accounts. They're must be a lot leading up to that point. I imagine the person would be going down the path of normal civil forfeiture in order to arrive at having your accounts checked.

You aren't reading the news enough. There has been a TON of asset forfeiture craziness going around for the last few years. Got more than 1K on you and get pulled over for something - you must be dealing drugs. Got 10K cash on you (like you know, going to the bank with deposits, - or heading to vegas) then you must be a high level gangster/gun-runner/identity thief so they best arrest you until they can 'sort it all out'

There have been numerous cases of people moving cross country having all their shit taken from them by the police until the owners can legally prove it is theirs. The problem is that costs thousands of dollars in attorneys/court fees and MONTHS of time. Which by then most of these people are desperate to get their lives back so they actually fucking SETTLE for less than the 'seized' amount - and the Company/PD get to split the left-overs.

This is *big* money for the various agencies; and its totally corrupt.


http://endforfeiture.com/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...tice/23737663/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0307f2caf0d90

[speedysst]

In most places in the United States, this would be called "robbery" or "armed robbery." I really try to defend LE but I simply cannot defend the outright thievery of this type of activity.

[GilpinGuy]

The state of Ok is paying the maker of the software scanners ERAD $5,000 plus another 7.7% of the money they seize from people. There is no cronyism going on there or anything. The senators bill should be to scrap the whole program. Now, they'll just criminalize the person then take their property to boot.

I'm surprised nobody else commented about this obvious corruption "opportunity".