Yeah, legality and enforcement are two different things. But I don’t think it’s common for cops to immediately pawn stuff then try to claim civil forfeiture.
I feel like they’re more likely to just lie and say it got lost, because otherwise a halfway decent lawyer could win a civil suit against them since they can’t produce the ‘defendant’.
I remember reading a whole lot about it during the Bush and Obama admins. The War on Terror was a great added excuse for backwoods cops to pull over brown people and rob them, and minorities (of course) were far less likely to lodge a complaint about it.
Thank you for the additional info.
In that case, civil forfeiture has been practiced illegally, nationwide, for a very long time. This practice is nothing new.
Yeah, legality and enforcement are two different things. But I don’t think it’s common for cops to immediately pawn stuff then try to claim civil forfeiture.
I feel like they’re more likely to just lie and say it got lost, because otherwise a halfway decent lawyer could win a civil suit against them since they can’t produce the ‘defendant’.
I remember reading a whole lot about it during the Bush and Obama admins. The War on Terror was a great added excuse for backwoods cops to pull over brown people and rob them, and minorities (of course) were far less likely to lodge a complaint about it.