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Originally Posted by GGG
Removing the proceeds of crime makes sense. Cook Meth in your house, lose your house. Transport drugs with your car lose your car.
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These are not the proceeds of crime, first of all. The proceeds would be whatever you made off the meth / drugs.
Second, this is just state sanctioned theft. What you "lose" for committing a crime should be left to the sentencing judge,
after you've been charged and convicted. It certainly should not be at police discretion and certainly not when you're arrested. That creates all the wrong incentives. It further erodes the already tenuous trust in police in the USA. Like you say, the only way to make this work is to have judicial oversight, and even then, how does a judge have all the facts when the person involved isn't there to represent themselves, not having yet been arrested?
Granted, I don't know why anyone would be carrying around $18,000 in his car like the guy in the article was. But there's no law against it, and abusing a law against knives to effectively steal that money is not something a police force should be bragging about on social media as a job well done.