Three cheers for the war on drugs

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http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/29/the-dea-seized-4-billion-from-people-sin

The Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than $4 billion in cash from people suspected of drug activity over the last decade, but $3.2 billion of those seizures were never connected to any criminal charges.

A report by the Justice Department Inspector General released Wednesday found that the DEA's gargantuan amount of cash seizures often didn't relate to any ongoing criminal investigations, and 82 percent of seizures it reviewed ended up being settled administratively—that is, without any judicial review—raising civil liberties concerns.

In total, the Inspector General reports the DEA seized $4.15 billion in cash since 2007, accounting for 80 percent of all Justice Department cash seizures. Those figures do not include other property, such as cars and electronics, which are favorite targets for seizure by law enforcement.
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and that's just the DEA. that doesn't include other alphabet agencies. If that's not armed robbery that deserves an appropriate violent response, I don't know what is.
 
Rune said:
You had me until violent response. Why not a legislative response?
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because legislative bodies are complicit in the scheme. legislators actually court police union support for elections, therefore they will do nothing to stop the policing for profit. it's a result of the dumbing down of america
 
United States v. Montoya de Hernandez

Frankfurter wrote in dissent:

"We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion. Many of them were innocent. I’d say we are well past brazen.

But these tactics aren’t about getting drugs off the street. You’ll have no trouble finding drugs or getting high in South Dakota, Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina, or any other state or city in the news for these searches. These tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy. We’ve been at this war for generations now, and the state has decided that people even suspected of being on the other side — be it because of their race, their “suspicious behavior,” their past, their family, their associations, or their class — aren’t worthy of basic human dignity."
 
United States v. Montoya de Hernandez

Frankfurter wrote in dissent:

"We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion. Many of them were innocent. I’d say we are well past brazen.

But these tactics aren’t about getting drugs off the street. You’ll have no trouble finding drugs or getting high in South Dakota, Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina, or any other state or city in the news for these searches. These tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy. We’ve been at this war for generations now, and the state has decided that people even suspected of being on the other side — be it because of their race, their “suspicious behavior,” their past, their family, their associations, or their class — aren’t worthy of basic human dignity."
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Good post, thnx
 
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