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DEA Squeezing Money and Property Out of People at Record Rates – High Times
The scope of asset forfeiture is outrageous: Since 2007, the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund skyrocketed to $28 billion.
In 2014 alone, authorities seized $5 billion in cash and property from individuals—more than the amount of all documented losses to burglary that year.
The kicker is that 81 percent of the DEA’s seizures—totaling $3.2 billion—were conducted “administratively,” meaning that no civil or criminal charges were brought against the owners of the cash and no judicial review of the seizures ever occurred.
Poof, the money is gone, and there’s no record of it or recourse to get it back.
The DEA simply takes the cash.
Bear in mind that if these so-called “administrative seizures” were reported by the DEA, think of .....
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The people who are for this what you don't get is this : If you were stopped for whatever reasons let say a broken tail light. Cop ask you to step out of the car he or she finds a few hundred dollars or even a couple thousand that is tech. for lets say a down payment for your new home.
They can take your money say it is for drugs, they can scan that money for drugs using a black light , and if there are traces of drugs on that money and you can be guarantee there will be traces of drugs on that money because it is all over money to begin with . Well now they keep your money and charge you .
Lets say they can't prove it is for drugs.............Uhhh but now they can charge your MONEY , your home for the CRIME........................ YES learn your laws and wtf they mean.