Take the money and run
 

" This weekend, The Washington Post published a deeply reported look at "highway interdiction," a controversial tactic that has allowed police to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists without formally charging anyone with a crime. Typically, police will stop a driver under suspicion of drug trafficking, seize their cash as evidence, and refuse to return it without a legal challenge. Only one in six seizures were challenged, typically because of the high cost of legal assistance."

What ? And brag about it on a website !!!

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/612...om-drivers-and

i just saw a story a couple weeks ago about a couple stopped in maryland...their cash was siezed.
legal larceny, eh?

Tennessee state boys are the National Champs at this.

And heaven forbid that you're traveling with your dog.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/09/police.kill.dog/

They can have all my cash, but do this to my dogs and I might as well go out in a blaze of glory. Hope that dash cam is running.

Oh my God. What a horrible story. Ugh.

Thank God it was 12 years ago and nothing comparable has happened since. Maybe because of video?

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/255...t-kill-pet-dog

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no..._dalene_v.html


http://fox13now.com/2014/08/01/salt-...-shooting-dog/

Yep. And sadly that's just the tip of the iceberg.

This one in 2008 was when I first became aware that none of us are safe.
http://reason.com/blog/2008/07/31/ma...ed-in-drug-rai
More on that case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_...ence_drug_raid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27fPqQctVXc

And even though assurances were made that police were being trained to better handle encounters in Anne Arundel County . . .
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,3864041.story

The bigger picture?
http://dogmurders.wordpress.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...286title=Rosie

Unbelievable. The linked original WP article. Seems like a bad B movie.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/inv...-targets-cash/

:zz:
All in the name of the War on Drugs.

Aside from military conflicts, our record in "Wars on __________" is abjectly dismal.

The New Yorker article from 2012 on civil forfeiture is also good reading

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken

I know people freak about the power of federal gov't but compared to state and local city corruption, it seems like there's just no contest.