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Posted by: Spadecaller 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Spadecaller7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Officials in Tenaha, situated along a heavily traveled highway connecting Houston with popular gambling destinations in Louisiana, have insisted that they are engaged in a battle against drug trafficking and call the search-and-seizure practice a legitimate use of the state's asset-forfeiture law.
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That law permits local police agencies to keep drug money and other property used in the commission of a crime and add the proceeds to their budgets. At least that is their cover...
However, too many cases investigated reveal a disproportionately targeting of minorities, particularly African-American motorists of which none of these people have been charged with a crime, none were engaged in anything that looked criminal. The sole factors common in well over a hundred of these cases is that they all had something valuable, they all describe being threatened by the police, and nearly all lost something valuable that was confiscated by the police.-
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wtagg7 months, 2 weeks ago
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This should be a warning in how laws that seemingly appear to be a good thing on the glossy surface can be used in a terribly wrong way.
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We, as citizens, need to take a close look at what the government claims to be doing for the good of the electorate.
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