Dont drive with lots of cash

I guess that's enough.

CLOSED

Personally I believe the majority has high ethics, there are a few bad apples that do tarnish thier image.

When the officer pulls me over and asks what that large bulge in my pocket is...I just tell him that’s my legally carried concealed carry firearm. That’s usually a good conversation starter.

Not anything new, watched Mysteries at the Museum and they profiled a case where a person was changing the beneficiaries on oil rich Osage Indian life insurance policies to himself. He would then have them killed a collect the money. He paid off the police and they ignored what was going on. All told he had 24 people killed. It took the Osage to write J Edgar Hoover who put a stop to this and arrested the man for murder.

camperdave wrote:
I've been living on cash for a few years. It's cool to me, I feel more in touch with what I am spending. That said, I do get nervous carrying large amounts at times, but I've never been worried about the cops taking it. I'm not a part of a targeted group, so it's not something I feel the need to worry about. Life is not fair, sometimes that works to our advantage.

I'm more worried I'll lose my wallet...

just being the one pulled over, or walking on the sidewalk. you are in the targeted group.

dodge guy wrote:
Unfortunately this is becoming more and more common. Police stealing from the public. eventually they will be able to seize you house and money in the bank if they are left to do what they want!

They are going to hit the wrong person and you will see big changes. until then its only lucrative for them to keep it up!

i can not site a "source" but some people have lost there homes bank accounts, savings, etc to this illegal activity by crooked cops.
not very common. but some cops have always found a way to take money from reg folk just out doing there thing. used to be a very fast signal light, or hidden stop sign kinda thing.
sad but even law enforcement can go bad.
why no city or county, including the courts involved should get a penny out of any tickets, or confiscations.

The land for Echo Bluff State Park in Missouri was acquired this way. It was pretty shady. Before that it was an old youth camp called Camp Zoe. The St Louis Riverfront Times had several articles on it.

I remember on Date Line they had several people in a Auditorium who had money or vehicles seized in Louisiana several years ago. Date Line even set up a car with several cameras that caught a officer lying. The officer said they were speeding, camera verified they were not. Officer said they were weaving out of there lane, camera verified they were not. The departments were using the money to take ski trips to Colorado among other expenditures.

RobWNY wrote:
What a crock of **** that guy is spewing. As a retired Law Enforcement Officer I am very familiar with Civil Forfeiture or what we called Asset Forfeiture. Not once did I or anyone I worked with pull over a car for a minor traffic infraction and then seize a wad of cash that the driver or one of the passengers had on them and then say "have a nice day!" and let them drive off. There's a whole lot more to that story. That youtube guy is only telling a very small part of a story to have his audience get riled up and is nothing more than a hater of Law Enforcement. People love to hear stuff like this to justify in their own minds how their own actions are ok even though the rest of society says they're not. It always amazed me that people believe the theory that breaking the Law and getting caught can be justified because a dirty cop was exposed in the news a couple of years ago. Therefore all cops are dirty. Therefore their illegal actions should go unpunished. There are thousands of people that think this exact way and guys like this youtube person rely on them to remain relevant online.

Several cases most notably the out of state, Elderly Lady traveling though La in new Continental. She had a few thousand dollars on her. It and the car was seized. It took about half of her money to get attorney to get the rest back.
Another, in Nashville at airport a Landscaper, had taken a larger sum of money out of the bank and was flying to somewher4, I have forgotten, to purchase plants or supplies. They seized it and he ws out of business before he got it back.

Some of you need to step away from the googler for a while and put yourselves in Internet time out!
This thread is the reason!