Asset seizures fuel police spending

Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @09:59AM (#8445291)

If the Washington Post, and others, would turn the same eye on any other organization, they would have a field day of things they would find, but it wouldn't sell as many newspapers. The problem is, they make it sound like all police have these issues (and others they "report" on) when the reality is far from it.

Someone will comment, "But the police shouldn't be doing this and it's a government institution!!", as if such institutions are not run by human beings but angels from God.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by Omniusaspirer on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:27AM (#8445355)

Oh please, I think the litany of "it's just a few bad apples" has been disproven enough already. I suppose the up to 40% domestic abuse rates among police families (4x national average) is lying about the reality as well?

http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp

I don't claim to know what the solution to America's law enforcement problems are but I have grown increasingly tired of apologists rushing to defend every police action no matter how abhorrent. Police are an important part of any modern society and you aren't doing them favors by sparing them all scrutiny.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:45AM (#8445403)

I should not have to start my iPhone voice recorder and keep my vehicle's dashcam running during a traffic stop because of fears I would normally have living someplace like Russia.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:36PM (#8446145)

If you do, you are the only person I know who does. I've never even heard of such a thing.

I do not fear the police. I have no need to.

Whatever happend to you that you feel you need to do that? Or is it only because of something you read on the internet?

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:30PM (#8446122)

You are shifting from the topic to police families. On top of that, you are tired of apologists for police but have no problem sticking up for the other side.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by walru on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:07AM (#8445314)

So.. is this a boys will be boys scenario? I'm not understanding your general point. It's clear these cops were operating like a mob organization, as do many precincts in this country. I see no harm in highlighting some wrong doing in hopes it'll curb other departments from doing the same.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:34PM (#8446138)

My point is, you can find similar stories about any organization, from religious operations to charities to almost anything and people will stand up to it as if such things were rampant throughout every member and each and every one of them is a dastardly person.

These stories are what I call the 'shrill of the internet' and you are supposed to focus on it cause, well, someone's screaming about it on the internet so it must be important and rampant and we're all going to die.

In the meantime, you get into trouble and who are the first people you call for help?

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by al2o3cr on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:32AM (#8445372)

Are you seriously arguing that expecting police officers to not be BANDITS is somehow asking too much?

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:37PM (#8446153)

Never said that. Quit making stuff up.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by theonemind on Sunday October 12, 2014 @11:00AM (#8445438)

They should be held to a higher standard, as they have power granted to them by the public to use in the public interest.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by kenjackson on Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:17AM (#8445339)

What other organization routinely takes and keeps assets from US citizens without permission?

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by atom-morgan on Sunday October 12, 2014 @11:14AM (#8445479)

And forces you to fund them at the same time.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by icantthinkofone on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:38PM (#8446157)

You are lumping everything in one category and calling it the same. This is the (can't think of a better word) falsehood of the internet.

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