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Kurt V. Ullman

On 2/9/17 10:38 AM, wrote:
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The cop makes the decision on the confiscation. It is the DA that
decides they can keep it. The whole thing is a scam tho and makes cops
little different than highway robbers. They are armed men who stop you
on the road and take your stuff at gunpoint, in many cases, never
proving that you did anything wrong except being there with something
they wanted, like a lot of money.

Nope. The cop makes the decision to take it into evidence for use at
trial. Same as a gun, or chewing gum, or anything else at the crime
scene. The prosecutor makes the determinaton on what comes next. Civil
forfeiture requires court filings and that isn't something the cop does.
Also a lot of the big buck things, bank accounts, houses, etc. are
seized away from the cops anyway.