When The Fucking Cops ARE The Fucking Robbers

[orogenicman]

Last night John Oliver brought his considerable attention to the idea of 'civil forfeiture.'

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/john-...-buy-toys/

Civil forfeiture laws allow cops to steal our ‘stuff’ to buy ‘toys’

Includes video.


This thread will be dedicated to instances of police theft as opposed to the Fcking Cops thread which is dedicated to instances where cops kill or beat the shit out of people because they fucking feel like it.

When I was in my early twenties, I used to ride a ten speed to work (my work was only 1/2mile away).  Every night, I used to chain it to a pillar on the porch built onto my mother's garage.  One morning, as I was preparing to leave for work, I discovered that my bike had been stolen.  I walked around the neighborhood to see if it had been left abandoned somewhere.  A neighbor told me that he saw a bike left in his front yard, so he called the police, who came and took it away.  I called the police, and they said a bike was picked up in that area , according to their dispatch logs.  So I went down to the police station to get my bike.  When I arrived, this cocky detective told me that whoever told me that my bike had been picked up was a liar (he was basically saying that his own people had lied to me).  But I insisted that I wanted to see all the bikes they had.  Sure enough, mine was nowhere to be found among the bikes they had in their possession.  The detective took me to the dispatch office, where the dispatch officer said he never told me that my bike was in their hands.  After I pointed out that I would not be at the police department had he not told me they had my bike, it was clear to me that any further argument was pointless, so I left.  To this day, I still believe that either the detective or the dispatch officer stole my bike out of their evidence locker.