Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget

Re:Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget by Sleaker on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:49PM (#12607822)

Woah, seems crazy that the police can keep something that was technically stolen property and not return it to the original owner. How can a judge argue that it will just be used to transfer drugs again, it's not the drug offender's property and she wasn't accessory... That's not relevant to the case, the owner isn't using it to traffic drugs.

IANAL, just confused.

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Re:Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget by madcowherd on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:46AM (#12613149)

I'm also perplexed about this. Anyone's car could be stolen, and then used to commit any number of crimes. Maybe the woman in the article didn't report the car as stolen?

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Re:Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget by Sleaker on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:09PM (#12614969)

maybe, because it was her own son and she didn't want him to face more jailtime? I thought it didn't matter though, I thought the owner could choose not to prosecute, or tell them to drop the case.. or maybe that's on a state-by-state level.

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