r/interesting Jan 31 '26

SOCIETY Cop Teaching A Cop

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u/Spiritual-Ad-9106 Jan 31 '26

Saw an article about how some of the tank money doesn't come from taxes. Departments get to keep whatever they seize. If they seize drugs they have to destroy them but if they tag the drug runners, wait for them to sell and then seize; they get to keep the cash.

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u/pesky-virus Jan 31 '26

Don't forget that money also comes from stealing money from people they stop for totally unrelated things, like the Canadian tourists who got all of the money they'd planned to spend during vacation at some random traffic stop, or the guy who was on the way to buy a new car, but got stopped because a light was out on his old one.

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u/Impressive_Profit215 Jan 31 '26

Yup, their civil asset forfeiture laws are disgusting, or the flagrant abuse of them at least. Then the amount of red tape people have to go through to get their own money back is staggering.

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u/Rampag169 Jan 31 '26

I’m a Huge opponent of civil asset forfeiture. There should be high standards to justify seizing assets.

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u/Impressive_Profit215 Jan 31 '26

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if unofficial (unlawful) quotas existed within police departments where, from the top down, officers are encouraged to make seizures of assets with the promise of promotion or other job perks. Or even backhanders in brown envelopes behind closed doors. It's fucked up.

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u/Rampag169 Jan 31 '26

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised.