Veteran's Family Sues Police, Counties

[Merlin99 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by itsrequired

So when is this going to happen? Asset forfeiture laws have been around for about 100 years. I have been in law enforcement for over 20 years and we have been siezing property from criminals long before I came around. So how long?

You don't really have an answer. You often give hypothetical suppositions which are anti authority but you really don't have any evidence that there is widespread corruption. Now you will find some isolated incident of corruption in some far away place and then try to justify your position with that information.

Without doing any research, there was an incident where the sherrif confiscated a trailer full of building materials that never made it back to the rightful owners.

[itsrequired]

Originally Posted by Merlin99

Without doing any research, there was an incident where the sherrif confiscated a trailer full of building materials that never made it back to the rightful owners.

Ah...again you are mis-informed. That had nothing to do with asset forfieture. That was a case where the officers arrested a guy, (that guy is now in federal prison for selling drugs) and confiscated building materials that the guy took from people in place of payment for drugs. A commander with the sheriff's office at the time made an error and returned the building materials to the victim's which had said materials stolen.

The case against the convicted drug dealer fell apart and he smartly sued to get his property back and was awarded a large sum of money.

That had NOTHING to do with asset forfieture. That was poor judgement by the commanding officer who was essentially forced to retire.

So...when are we going to start mis-using the asset forfieture laws as proclaimed by you? I know you want to try and cloud the issue with something else, but it's apples and oranges.

[Merlin99 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by itsrequired

Ah...again you are mis-informed. That had nothing to do with asset forfieture. That was a case where the officers arrested a guy, (that guy is now in federal prison for selling drugs) and confiscated building materials that the guy took from people in place of payment for drugs. A commander with the sheriff's office at the time made an error and returned the building materials to the victim's which had said materials stolen.

The case against the convicted drug dealer fell apart and he smartly sued to get his property back and was awarded a large sum of money.

That had NOTHING to do with asset forfieture. That was poor judgement by the commanding officer who was essentially forced to retire.

So...when are we going to start mis-using the asset forfieture laws as proclaimed by you? I know you want to try and cloud the issue with something else, but it's apples and oranges.

I'm not even going to try, you'll just fall back on poo pooing everything and proceed to explain how it doesn't fall into your narrow definition. Count it as a win for your side, even though you haven't convinced anyone.


Yea for your team.

[letmetellyou]

Originally Posted by GURPS

Militarization of the Local Police Marches ON .........

How is this the militarization? The cops need to protect themselves. They trained me to eliminate targets in the military. I know the cops do thousands of operations where they do not eliminate the target.