Stopped in motor home for going too slow on I-80
This just goes to show how things can escalate to a huge problem when you are just driving along minding your own business. Kinda hard to believe this goes on. Motor home stopped for going too slow
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down home wrote:boondockdad wrote:
Amazing.
Since the first trooper couldn't detain him without any reasonable articulated suspicion, they pull him over 50 minutes down the road?!
The whole thing should have been thrown out of court, and those "officers" severely disciplined.
"Civil Forfeiture" is one of those concepts that absolutely flies in the face of the Constitution.
I don't think there anyone that disagrees with you. This was seen and is as a gold mine by many jurisdictions even though, the People say, it is illegal.
I disagree with him. Although there have been abuses of the civil forfeiture system by some agencies, taking the profit out of criminal activity is a great tool. And although I suspect the money in this case came from drug activity, money and property have been seized a lot from white collar criminals too. When you run a Ponzi scheme that rips off people for millions of dollars, don't you think when you get caught law enforcement should be able to come in and seize your assets?
