A bombshell report from the Inspector General (IG) at the Department of Justice has exposed the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the colossal thieves they are. According to the report, DEA seized more than $4 billion in cash from people since 2007, but $3.2 billion of the seizures were never connected to any criminal charges. That figure does not even include the seizure of cars and electronics.
This thievery is possible through the insidious practice of civil asset forfeiture (CAF), where law enforcement can seize cash and property on the mere suspicion of being involved in criminal activity. Originally developed in the 1980s to go after organized crime, CAF has mushroomed into a source of revenue for cops across the country – from local to state to federal – in what’s become known as Policing for Profit.
When an innocent person’s cash is stolen by DEA, that person must petition to get it back, meaning the burden of proof (and the burden of time and expense) is on the unlucky victim who never did anything wrong in the first place. […]
Yup.
If you rob a police officer you will go to prison. If a police officer robs you he is doing his job.
Time to get rid of the DEA.
Good to see some Activist Post material here.
About ten years ago my son was stabbed in the neck and the police took his jacket for evidence. This had nothing to do with any crime other than the fact that my son was stabbed in his neck and almost died on his doorstep. He never got his new leather jacket back since then. they just kept it. I was really angry about it because it was an expensive jacket I had purchased for him. Luckily my son recovered from the stabbing, thank God, even though he lost a lot of blood because the wound cut his large artery going to his brain and he could have died. We never found out why the police never gave him his jacket back.