Jesus christ, that video is so fucking infuriating. The absolute disdain that that cop has for constitutional rights is appalling. And what's more appalling i

Jesus christ, that video is so fucking infuriating. The absolute disdain that that cop has for constitutional rights is appalling. And what's more appalling is that this kind of thing happens so much; that there's nothing stopping it. Cops seize property with no justification all the time, and there's so little recourse. Sure, occasionally a program like this might be stopped, but there's nothing stopping them from starting it back up again in a slightly different form. They spend years seizing money from thousands of people and paying kickbacks for it; maybe some of the folks were doing it for illicit purpose, maybe some weren't, it's hard to know because there's no due process of law, civil forfeiture just lets cops take money from people on the flimsiest of suspicion. The 4th amendment is meaningless as long as civil asset forfeiture exists.