More Consequences of The "War On Drugs"

[tran]

I will put 100.00 on it that they have a problem with dirty cops!

 

[MaddSkillz]

The video in the OP is pretty interesting. You should watch it.

 

[carready]

I will put 100.00 on it that they have a problem with dirty cops!

Sounds like more of a problem with dirty drivers.

 

[crimeftr]

The video in the OP is pretty interesting. You should watch it.

I did watch it, and I wasnt impressed with their attitudes towards each other.

 

[tran]

Sounds like more of a problem with dirty drivers.

Maybe, but they are innocent until they are proven guilty! If they had a reason to believe that something was criminal then get a warrant! You do not have the right to illegal search and seizure. PERIOD!

 

[carready]

Don't need a warrant, just probable cause. Nothing was said about illegal searching and seizing. Make the stop legal, develop PC or get consent, find the contraband and seize it. All in a days work.

 

[tran]

You cant tell me that some of whats going on in Tennessee is all being done on the bases of PC. BS!

 

[Glocktogo]

Come on now, lets use some common sense. How many of you that travel with large sums of cash wrap it in plastic with coffee around it or grease to cover the smell and then take your gas tank off of your vehicle and store it in there? Or maybe create a false compartment, like building a false floor in a pick up bed where you can hide drugs and money? What is the intent when this stuff is done? One out of a thousand may have good intentions but the rest if for the narcotics trade. For the one that has good intentions, then notify the officer when he asks, dont lie, tell him exactly where it is and what your intent is.

Now as far as officers work the money side and not the dope side, well when you confiscate the dope your get maybe one or two people out of the vehicle and maybe the vehicle. 99 % of the time its not their dope, they are being paid to haul it. So your not actually getting the dope dealer, your getting the low level mule. On that note, when you get their money then you can follow the proper state guidelines to file for forfeiture and use the money for other good things. Each state varies as to its laws on forfeiture too.

So you're saying that enforcing the law that makes it illegal to deliver a controlled substance isn't as important as confiscating the money derived from said deliveries? If that's the case, then what's the point of the law in the first place? Say one of those drug mule customers dies. Does the agency tasked with enforcing the drug law that focused all their efforts on the cash cow bear any responsibility?

I'm not a 100% libertarian on this subject, especially when you tally the cost to the community in collateral damage caused by illicit use of Schedule I controlled substances. But let's face it, in many ways the "war on drugs" has gone off the rails. When you have agencies going after the money while virtually ignoring the drugs themselves, you significantly diminish the rationale for the law in the first place.

 

[okie_gunslinger]

how is money by itself, no matter what amount, contraband?

 

[cjjtulsa]

how is money by itself, no matter what amount, contraband?

Exactly.