The Daily Populous Monday April 29th, 2024 evening edition
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Moove-Brain on April 29th, 2024 at 06:05 UTC »

The fact they they went out of their way to get this done makes me worry about the personality of this cop, 90% chance he ain’t a good one

23andrewb on April 29th, 2024 at 06:36 UTC »

We used to have a brand new mustang sheriff car in my hometown that was labeled with "Taken from a local cocaine dealer." It lasted a year or two until they removed the decal because they finally realized it wasn't exactly great advertising for our city.

_CMDR_ on April 29th, 2024 at 09:01 UTC »

Almost certainly taken via civil asset forfeiture which is a shambles of due process. You can have your items seized as a suspect, never be convicted of a crime and then have to prove with a preponderance of evidence that you deserve it back. A miscarriage of justice.

Here’s one example:

Police have broken into homes. In March 2012, in the middle of the night, without a warrant, New York City police burst into the home of Gerald Bryan, ransacked his belongings, ripped out light fixtures, arrested him, and seized $4,800 of his cash, but after a year, the case against him was dropped.[11] When Bryan tried to get back his money, he was told it was "too late" since the money had already been put into the police pension fund.[11] Victims of forfeiture often find themselves faced with fighting in a "labyrinthine" procedure to get their money back.[11]

Edits were made to fix incorrect standard of evidence and add the example from Wikipedia.