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.
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Seizure is democratic for bribe lol
crooked politics, need to change this law and pay back all those they stole the money from with interest, ILLINOIS COPS SEIZE $107,000 FROM COUPLE NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME
Illinois Cops Seize $107,000 From Couple Not Charged With Any Crime
It’s been 3 years since Adam and Jennifer Perry had their money seized by the Illinois State Police, but they are no closer to retrieving the $107,520 stolen from them than they were when the incident happened. Indeed, many Americans are on the same boat as them, with law enforcement agents taking and keeping their financial and material assets without any justifiable legal rationale.
“In a letter filed earlier this month, Adam claims that the taken cash came from savings and disability settlements and payments. ‘Our faith in the United States legal system has been shaken. Why are officer’s [sic] allowed to be judge, jury and executioner on the side of the road?’ the Perrys asked in a 2013 response to federal prosecutors.
Unfortunately, their case is not unique. An extensive investigation by The Washington Post into one federal forfeiture program found nearly 62,000 cash seizures since 9/11 where police did not use warrants or charge the owners with a crime. Out of those seizures, more than 1,700 were in Illinois alone.
Moreover, for federal civil forfeiture cases, property owners are not presumed innocent and do not have a right to an attorney. With few safeguards, police and prosecutors can profit from forfeiture. Illinois agencies received more than $186 million in federal forfeiture funds between 2000 and 2013 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Institute for Justice’s report, Policing for Profit.”
That’s because Tennessee is a police for profit state. If they assume you have a stash spot in your vehicle they seize it and auction it. No questions asked!
Mexicans working in the states send money in bulk home to families. One person is in charge of driving it there. Few years back police seized alot of money from workers sending money home legally. I don’t think they got it back. It got tied up in the courts
I meant I just don’t feel like there’s a whole picture here. Something is missing. I understand the concept and issues with, but feel there’s more or others facets to this particular story. Not everything on every site is unbiased or fully disclosing.
Tax dodgers
Why worry about the criminals robbing you when the police can do it just as easly
And they’re surprised that people hate their guts enough to shoot them . Blue lives matter is a joke . Being humane matters.
The gang in blue strike again
It’s still called theft