“OIG Investigators found that the DEA paid one airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over the past several years in proceeds from cash seized as a result of their tips. However, the vast majority of those airport seizures aren’t accompanied by criminal prosecutions. This has led to years of complaints from civil liberties groups that the DEA is abusing civil asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize cash and other property suspected of being connected to criminal activity such as drug trafficking, even if the owner is never arrested or charged with a crime.”
What a roundabout way to say they’ve just been stealing people’s money with no oversight or consequences.
Here’s how I see this grift working:
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DEA agent gets info about cash mule coming across, but can’t get reward.
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Airport employee in on con gets a phone call from agent
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Report “tip” and gets reward
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Agent gets commission
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Rinse, repeat
Follow the reward money and see who needs a corruption trial.
You think that’s somehow more likely than:
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Fucker with full access to your bags while you’re nowhere near them looks through your shit
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When they find a bag full of money, said fucker gets to legally take a percentage by just tipping off the DEA, instead of just robbing you and risking being caught
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On the one hand, that’s really funny. On the other hand the libertarian assholes at Reason can get fucked.
Civil Asset Forfeiture is such a scummy concept.
“You aren’t suspected of a crime, your money is. We need to take it into custody.”
And then they get a new squad car two weeks later.
Don’t worry. Under Trump the DEA will soon cease to exist, solving this problem.
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You’re suggesting that the Trump administration is going to defund the police…?
Really? That’d be great
Good.
