forfeiture during traffic stops

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BRADENTON -- For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes.

The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form called the "Contraband Forfeiture Agreement." By signing it, a person agrees to relinquish their property to the police and waive any rights they have to try to get it back through the courts.

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In some cases -- including one last year where police seized more than $43,000 from a man during a traffic stop -- people have signed over cash and other property without ever getting charged with a crime.

Granted, driving around with $43,000 in your car is strange. He we probably up to no good. However, giving it to the police in return for being released is more strange. Most places refer to this as a payoff.

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A Manatee County judge last year found fault with the department's forfeiture procedure in a case where police took more than $7,000 from a woman arrested for a driver's license violation after a traffic stop.

Judge Douglas Henderson said Jicela Baneles, 28, did not knowingly and willingly agree to give up her money -- despite the appearance of her name on the department's forfeiture agreement.

Police were ordered to return the money.

A lot of migrant workers lock their cash in their cars.

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The case is rooted in the police seizure of $10,020 from a 20-year-old Orlando man, Delane N. Johnson, in July.

Johnson, questioned amid a robbery investigation, was arrested on a rarely used charge of failing to report a business transaction that exceeds $10,000.

But prosecutors said it's not a crime to carry that amount of cash, and the state dropped the charge in August.

Interesting. The police are investigating a robbery, take the money, but the victim never gets it back.
Uhhh... what?

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The best way to commit a crime is to become a cop or a lawyer...... the system is beyond broken.

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BRADENTON -- For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes.

The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form called the "Contraband Forfeiture Agreement." By signing it, a person agrees to relinquish their property to the police and waive any rights they have to try to get it back through the courts.

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In some cases -- including one last year where police seized more than $43,000 from a man during a traffic stop -- people have signed over cash and other property without ever getting charged with a crime.

Granted, driving around with $43,000 in your car is strange. He we probably up to no good. However, giving it to the police in return for being released is more strange. Most places refer to this as a payoff.

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A Manatee County judge last year found fault with the department's forfeiture procedure in a case where police took more than $7,000 from a woman arrested for a driver's license violation after a traffic stop.

Judge Douglas Henderson said Jicela Baneles, 28, did not knowingly and willingly agree to give up her money -- despite the appearance of her name on the department's forfeiture agreement.

Police were ordered to return the money.

A lot of migrant workers lock their cash in their cars.

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The case is rooted in the police seizure of $10,020 from a 20-year-old Orlando man, Delane N. Johnson, in July.

Johnson, questioned amid a robbery investigation, was arrested on a rarely used charge of failing to report a business transaction that exceeds $10,000.

But prosecutors said it's not a crime to carry that amount of cash, and the state dropped the charge in August.

Interesting. The police are investigating a robbery, take the money, but the victim never gets it back.
Uhhh... what?

Might want to ask THIS GUY>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mtanner2806oct28,0,398029.story?coll=orl-home-headlinesHe's a real asshole. But he sucks the Bushes dicks along w/ K. Harris so....

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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So what do you expect when we're rapidly turning into a police state?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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So what do you expect when we're rapidly turning into a police state?

You start out with Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement.

LE for the stuff that is found out afterwards.
CP for the things than can be prevented through good management, education, and pro-active measures.

Then, CP was deemed too expensive.

Then, it costs too much to pursue actual criminals, so it became Revenue Enhancement. Hence, the Forfeiture program. "Give us all you money. Thanks for stopping by."

Now who protects us from them ?

The next step (seriously), and I do not think that this is too far off - outsourcing. Running jails is a huge business. Guaranteed income.

However, the income is provided by the govt, but the revenues could be reduced by outsourcing it to Mexico.
Guards would work for $10 a day. I give it 10 years.