Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop.

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact! Police collectively make up a majority of cases of armed robbery,* and it’s totally legal for them

  • Legally, civil asset forfeiture is distinct from armed robbery. Literally, they are the same thing.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Civil asset forfeiture is one of those things where when you hear about it your first reaction is that it must be some fringe conspiracy theory because there’s no way the police could get away with something like that, right? But no, it’s really that bad and done completely in the open. Cops can just steal your shit out of “suspicion” and the process of getting it back is deliberately labyrinthine and difficult.

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    • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you prove your inherited grandmother’s engagement ring actually belongs to you? Receipt please! Oh you don’t have one. It’s ours to auction off now!

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    • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the father of civil asset forfeiture was DNC centrist darling and father of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians himself, Joe dipshit biden, who belongs in prison along with trump and many other american politicians.

      mises.org/…/joe-biden-father-drug-wars-asset-forf…

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      • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well that’s sadly educational. Thanks for the info.

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    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I first read about it years ago and you captured my reaction perfectly.

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  • gnomebody@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Taking all the lemon pounds cake

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbf, it tastes so nice

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      • wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It makes the sherriff wanna put down his gun… and cut him a slice…

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s their secondary mission. Their primary mission is to terrorise the populace into submission.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well if I may be a bit pedantic, that’s merely a consequense of their real primary mission. To safeguard the interest of the capitalist elite. It’s really just a coincidence that terrorising the populace into submission achieves that mission.

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