When he asks “How much cash do you have in the car?” Most advisable answer: “None.”
Under Civil Asset Forfeiture laws, the Badge Gang is rewarded for its official theft, often getting to keep what cash and other property they seize from people who are told they are suspected of a crime while never being charged with anything.
Happens a lot in Philadelphia, Pa., apparently. Happens rarely in Texas, it seems, and that makes sense because it wouldn’t happen here for very long without retribution.
“…this is legal extortion by people with guns and the power to imprison against innocent people…” says David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Comedian John Oliver gets to the heart of the matter with humor that isn’t funny for long. He shows that the excuse these police thieves usually use is the government’s failed “drug war” that’s corrupted them and so much else.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 