A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it

Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by cf498 on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:07PM (#17211648)

As an outside perspective, how do you quantify, that only "Few cops and agents are bad". If your job contains robbing people, I would rationally word it the other way around. Hopefully there are quite a few cops who dont follow the rules and subvert the system of organized theft. But if you take policies like civil forfeiture or for example police union cards for family members this sounds like organized crime to quite a few people not living in the US.

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by mirimir on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:46PM (#17211849)

Well, it's criminal, and it's organized.

Classic quote from Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by ridgeguy on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:07PM (#17211957)

I don't think it matters whether few or many cops or agents are bad.

The source of harm is the forfeiture law.

With such laws in place, even a single bad actor can do enormous damage. We need to repeal the civil forfeiture laws.

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by maxxxxx on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:38PM (#17211804)

"Hopefully there are quite a few cops who dont follow the rules and subvert the system of organized theft"

There is no rule that says they have to do asset forfeiture. It's a choice. One of the biggest problems in the US is that laws are not very clear and clarification is left up to the courts.

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