U.S.
[h=3]These states let police take and keep your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime[/h]
Most states in America let police take and keep your stuff without convicting you of a crime. These states fully allow what's known as "civil forfeiture": Police officers can seize someone's property without proving the person was guilty of a crime; they just need probable cause to believe the assets are being used as part of criminal activity, typically drug trafficking. Police can then absorb the value of this property — be it cash, cars, guns, or something else — as profit, either through state programs or under a federal program known as Equitable Sharing, which lets local and state police get up to 80 percent of the value of what they seize as money for their departments. So police not only ...Read more
[h=3]These states let police take and keep your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime[/h]
Most states in America let police take and keep your stuff without convicting you of a crime. These states fully allow what's known as "civil forfeiture": Police officers can seize someone's property without proving the person was guilty of a crime; they just need probable cause to believe the assets are being used as part of criminal activity, typically drug trafficking. Police can then absorb the value of this property — be it cash, cars, guns, or something else — as profit, either through state programs or under a federal program known as Equitable Sharing, which lets local and state police get up to 80 percent of the value of what they seize as money for their departments. So police not only ...Read more
