archive.fo/zOliM In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution limits the ability of state and local police to seize and keep cash, property, and other assets that may have been used to commit crimes, particularly when it’s used to enrich police departments.
Written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her first day back at the court, the decision cites the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines to place limits on civil asset forfeiture—a practice in which states and localities confiscate cash, cars, houses, and other assets believed to have been used in crimes. The practice has been decried by civil liberties organizations for years; police departments often keep the revenue from such seizures, and these forfeitures occur throughout the country even when no one has been charged or convicted of a crime.
As NPR reports, “the ruling effectively means states and local municipalities cannot use fines as a mechanism for raising revenue, something many local governments do.”
Data shows that civil asset forfeiture disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, particularly black Americans and low-income neighborhoods. In a series of reports, The Greenville News chronicled their findings after spending years poring through data on civil asset forfeitures in South Carolina. The state pocketed $17 million from those seizures between 2014-2016, and 65 percent of those targeted were black men. In more than half of the instances when police took cash, the amount was less than $1,000: enough to push someone into financial hardship, but not enough to incur legal fees to reclaim.
In Alabama, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that civil asset forfeiture was practiced similarly, with police seizing assets worth less than the cost of the legal fees it would require to reclaim the cash or property. Under state law, someone trying to reclaim seized assets needs to go to civil court to prove their property is lawful—even if they haven’t been charged with a crime.
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Watch police continue to do it because your only recourse is expensive litigation.
Michael Gomez
Unfortunately this. It's how they operate. Would Americans be able to take the case to the FBI (or some other form of federal law enforcement)? Presumably breaking a Supreme Court ruling is the sort of thing they (are supposed to) care about.
Juan Kelly
Well shit that's actually good news for once.
Ryan Anderson
80+ days press still using old stock photos and old video
all I need is one picture of her. why is that so hard?
Gabriel Smith
No, police will continue to do it because >"what are you going to do?, arrest me?"
Feds won't do shit because they benefit from asset forfeiture as well.
Jaxson Sanchez
So are they going to give back the stuff they nigged? The practice of stealing from people they can't charge or convict is a long-standing practice. In America, more is stolen this way than by non-gang-related theft.
Tyler Bailey
My gf's piece-of-shit dog wants to know what the Supreme Court plans on doing about the bed & blanket eminent domain asset seizure actions perpetrated on him by my cat.
make the world a better place, kill a cop today. just make sure you kill all the niggers first.
Matthew White
Busted for having a JewTube tab or window open at the same time you're surfing Zig Forums! Tsk Tsk. Can't see the actual uBlock settings you have set for the YouTube website, but am curious.
Benjamin Williams
I bet you are! Datamine much? Seriously though, I'm still getting my uBlock Origin settings set right for YouTube, and writing all the rules. Damn Google is all up in everyone's shit so much in so many ways that it's hard to interact with the world without interacting with them in some way; and learning how best to interact with them can be an eye-opening experience! I already gave you the best, most specific guide, if you are interested.. github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki The specific pages related to blocking are here… github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
You best be DAMN careful in here though! filterlists.com/ or here… github.com/collinbarrett/FilterLists Filter lists are nice, if you have the right ones, but can be a nightmare if you don't! If you have your settings and rules done up right you won't need any extra lists besides those you can find in the previous links anyway. Don't go all hogwild and aluminum foil hat on us so bad that you make the entire internet unusable for you! lol I promise you, you will learn a lot during this process. Don't get frustrated. A brand new internet awaits you just around the corner! You just have to walk through your fears and educate yourself..
etc., etc., for all the websites like Twatter and the like that you want to COMPLETELY Block. I prefer to block the actual elements myself; rather harshly too, then ease up on my restrictions if I absolutely have to in order to interact with whatever site I wish to interact with.
Joseph Martinez
I'll just keep posting stuff about uBlock Origin the more it pisses the mod off, and the more of my posts he deletes. He's being a sniveling little shit right now and he knows it, so fuck him! I have literally done nothing wrong. dailywoke.com/how-to-use-ublock-origin-to-block-all-ads-complete-guide/ Not a very "complete guide" compared to github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki but it may get you started. And getting started can be revolutionary!
I only do it so Johnny gets blamed for everything. I wish everybody would! [spoiler]and now that I know it gets your goat…[spoiler]
Carter Cooper
This is important to you, because it's the only place in the world that you somehow actually feel like you matter…
But you don't… You're like a mosquito.
You're an effeminate fruit fly….
My wife and I are actually watching my favorite TV show right now LIVE PD, and I'm barely paying attention to shitposting in here. I couldn't care less if my shitposts last for 30 seconds or 30 years
Any more than I care about the toilet paper that I wiped my ass with last week.
But my used toilet paper is very important to you
You have dedicated your life to flushing my toilet paper after I wipe, and somehow that makes you feel like you are important and powerful.
You're nothing more than a goddamn janitor, and now it's time for you to take my used toilet paper and flush it for me again.
I have access to tens of thousands of IP addresses, and I couldn't care less about your little power Trip, or your clinical depression, or your self-meditation with alcohol….
This place is my toilet…..
And you are the fucking nigger janitor
Aiden King
Quick! Everybody post PicsArt images! The mod is drunk and stupid and we know where his buttons are now!
Every time you lose your self-control, you put me high on a pedestal…..
Literally… With the least amount of energy I could possibly muster… LITERALLY the least amount of energy… In a very short amount of time, I managed to get under your skin worse than anybody ever has !!!!
Juan King
He hates this image too. I keep getting banned for it. WHY, mod? Is it seriously because it has a PicsArt filename? Are you that drunk, or just that anal?
don't look at Fang's posts while swallowing pizza or drinking a beverage
Joshua Wilson
Oops! I forgot to run those through PicsArt first! Still though, mod, I can do this shit all day! You're about ready to pass out, it looks like to me..
I'm actually at dinner, drove halfway across town while drunk because I'm not a pussy.
Jason Jackson
it's SO fucking easy to get under your thin skin
it's not like I have to use any sophisticated god damn psychology or ethereal techniques
All I have to do……. Is wipe my fucking ass…… with your imageboard culture…..
which is really really easy because I have NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER for your bullshit imageboard culture
none…..
trust me…. NONE
Jackson Parker
Ahhhhhhh…..
NOW YOU'RE TALKING !!!
believe it or not now I'm beginning to have some respect for you !!!…….
That's more like it
Now I'm curious what kind of restaurant you went to… I just got done almost dying on a slice of pizza a few minutes ago…..
what you eating?
Jeremiah Ramirez
If this guy gives so little of a shit the heat got in his car drunk as hell and went to go Munch out somewhere, and he's in the middle of living his life, being an asshole and being kind of a renegade right now, and he's kind of 'shitmodding on the side', then he's gained a little bit of respect from me… I have to admit… He just earned a little bit of my respect
Aaron Anderson
and it was YOU who almost made me choke on that pizza, and don't think I'm going to forget it.
Jaxon Richardson
Right now on LivePD, they've pulled over this chick, who has drawn her own license plate
but she's got an 8 week old puppy named Stella with her.
The cop is being really sweet to the puppy, and if they arrest the woman, the puppy will have to go to animal control….
Enjoy your dinner! I am also gaining some grudging respect for you, mod. I mean, not enough to stop posting PicsArt images or anything! But, you know..
actually, having trump shake Ruth's hand at a trump rally with thousands of people around to verify she is alive would be enough.
Bentley Johnson
Had myself a nice Reuben and sweet potato fries at the local diner. It was breddy gud. Enjoy [D+] instead of [RB] since this was humorous.
Ian Lewis
I love sweet potato French fries, and I always used to use honey to dip them in… Until I discovered that a majority of the honey that you buy at the store is actually artificial honey.
Even though it doesn't say it on the label.
Now I use sweet Asian chili sauce to dip my sweet potato fries into.
Nathan Clark
I was banned from /t/ for insulting americans so I will ask here: Why do cumskins do this?
I really fucking admire that young man who built his own prosthetic arms out of Legos, and then from some kind of motorized erector set.
He's from Barcelona Spain but he's demonstrating true American determination and ingenuity
I salute that kid big time… He gives me faith in the human race again
Kevin Gray
You are still a massive faggot, mod; but thanks for letting me know that uBlock Origin is one of your many buttons. I'll be sure to keep pushing it.. Here. Have a PicsArt image for dessert!
Because of the choices those very same negros make. While asset forfeiture is the kikiest shit ever so is the claim that any law disproportionately affects niggers, spics, mudshits and kikes.
Mason Ward
>(((he))) thinks cumskin is an insult Found the shitskin-niggerkike.
Luis Taylor
OK… WHY THE FUCK didn't anybody rule against this shit on the basis of "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"?????
You DO understand the only thing that gets Trump hard these days is the prospect of Ginsberg's death, right? If she were dead, the human Cheeto would be shouting it from the rooftops and looking for another ultra-Trump-loyal sycophant to stack the SCOTUS with. In fact (spoiler alert) if defeated in 2020, he'll declare another bogus "national emergency" and declare himself president-for-life.
Carter Rivera
Cities where making money this way and the people being affected where too poor to sue.
Mason Ward
bumping real news
Dominic Gomez
because cops arresting you under (((reasonable))) suspicion is construed as "due process"
Noah Bailey
Incarceration rates don't even remotely keep up with the disproportionately high rates of crime and violent crime in those communities.
