We are living in a time when the due process protections of the Fourth Amendment are more important than ever.
Back in 2012, couple Adam and Jennifer Perry were speeding down an Illinois highway to reach a hearing specialist based in Salt Lake City, Utah who was supposed to treat an ear infection afflicting Adam. Their high speed drew the attention of state troopers, who pulled the couple over.
After a drug dog sniffed the Perry’s car, police searched their vehicle. They turned up empty-handed, with the only thing vaguely resembling the drugs they were looking for being a duffel bag that officers claimed smelled of marijuana.
But they found something else: $107,520 in cash, belonging to the Perrys’.
The officers let them go, but they kept the cash, even though the Perrys’ weren’t charged with a crime or even subject to a search warrant.
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WTF???? what kind of horseshit is that? how can the police keep the cash if they weren’t charged or arrested or anything?
This needs to end.
Broke state desparate for money. It’s essentially a modern feudal system were the police are knights from the castle that go out and raid the local serfs to fund the nobles.
Wtf
And yet they are inacting a us against them war in order to get federal funds..while innocent AMERICANS are being raped by law enforcement! !!
happens to truckers all the time. scale cops demanding payment for fines on the spot with no due process. if a driver doesn’t pay, the cop tows his truck, trailer, and load.
We are living in a time when the due process protections of the Fourth Amendment are more important than ever.
Back in 2012, couple Adam and Jennifer Perry were speeding down an Illinois highway to reach a hearing specialist based in Salt Lake City, Utah who was supposed to treat an ear infection afflicting Adam. Their high speed drew the attention of state troopers, who pulled the couple over.
After a drug dog sniffed the Perry’s car, police searched their vehicle. They turned up empty-handed, with the only thing vaguely resembling the drugs they were looking for being a duffel bag that officers claimed smelled of marijuana.
But they found something else: $107,520 in cash, belonging to the Perrys’.
The officers let them go, but they kept the cash, even though the Perrys’ weren’t charged with a crime or even subject to a search warrant.
It’s been 3 years since Adam and Jennifer Perry had their money seized by the Illinois State Police, but they are no closer to retrieving the $107,520 stolen from them than they were when the incident happened. Indeed, many Americans are on the same boat as them, with law enforcement agents taking and keeping their financial and material assets without any justifiable legal rationale.
“In a letter filed earlier this month, Adam claims that the taken cash came from savings and disability settlements and payments. ‘Our faith in the United States legal system has been shaken. Why are officer’s [sic] allowed to be judge, jury and executioner on the side of the road?’ the Perrys asked in a 2013 response to federal prosecutors.
Unfortunately, their case is not unique. An extensive investigation by The Washington Post into one federal forfeiture program found nearly 62,000 cash seizures since 9/11 where police did not use warrants or charge the owners with a crime. Out of those seizures, more than 1,700 were in Illinois alone.
Moreover, for federal civil forfeiture cases, property owners are not presumed innocent and do not have a right to an attorney. With few safeguards, police and prosecutors can profit from forfeiture. Illinois agencies received more than $186 million in federal forfeiture funds between 2000 and 2013 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Institute for Justice’s report, Policing for Profit.”
Thats Just Another Reason Why I Hate Cops
Boss Hogg mentality….
drug money?