We are living in a time when the due process protections of the Fourth Amendment are more important than ever.
Back in 2012, couple Adam and Jennifer Perry were speeding down an Illinois highway to reach a hearing specialist based in Salt Lake City, Utah who was supposed to treat an ear infection afflicting Adam. Their high speed drew the attention of state troopers, who pulled the couple over.
After a drug dog sniffed the Perry’s car, police searched their vehicle. They turned up empty-handed, with the only thing vaguely resembling the drugs they were looking for being a duffel bag that officers claimed smelled of marijuana.
But they found something else: $107,520 in cash, belonging to the Perrys’.
The officers let them go, but they kept the cash, even though the Perrys’ weren’t charged with a crime or even subject to a search warrant.
Read more about this unbelievable story on the next page:
ARE COPS CONSTITUTIONAL?
Roger Roots*
ABSTRACT
Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, and first appeared in America almost a half-century after the Constitution’s ratification. The Framers contemplated law enforcement as the duty of mostly private citizens, along with a few constables and sheriffs who could be called upon when necessary. This article marshals extensive historical and legal evidence to show that modern policing is in many ways inconsistent with the original intent of America’s founding documents. The author argues that the growth of modern policing has substantially empowered the state in a way the Framers would regard as abhorrent to their foremost principles.
Source:
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/cops.htm
seizure of assets is unconstitutional theft by government – welcome to the militarized blu klux klan fascist police state
Bad
Question…how many of you people drive around with a big bag full of cash??? I smell something more to this story. Get real!
Old story trying to inflame mistrust ! We have enough things to worry about without worrying about getting angry about this. It is a money laundering law. Do you drive around with bags of money in your car?
Matt
The Difference Between a Peace Officer/Constable and a Police Officer/Cop
Peace Officers and/or Constables are Constitutional but Police Officers and/or Cops are Unconstitutional by virtue of who they serve. Police Officers and/or cops serve the interests of politicians and corporations. In other words, they are SECURITY GUARDS pretending as Police Officers/Cops using taxpayers’ money for their salaries and benefits while relieving politicians and private corporations of financial burdens and taxes. Such deception is firsthand VALUE USURPATION through hypocrisy, fraud, impersonation, illusion, and/or pretenses which is usually followed by VALUE DESTRUCTION using initiatory force, threat of force, coercion, intimidations, and blackmail!!!
another bunch of crooked cops this needs to be made right
Something is terribly wrong.we NEED to stop this.
It is happening all across this country!