By James Bovard
Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext.
You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you sit behind a steering wheel. Between 2001 and 2014, lawmen seized more than $2.5 billion in cash from sixty thousand travelers on the nationâs highwaysâwith no criminal charges in most cases, according to the Washington Post. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have institutionalized shakedowns on the nationâs highways to the point that âforfeiture corridors are the new speed traps,â as Mother Jones observed.
Police can almost always find an excuse to pull someone over. Gerald Arenberg, executive director of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, told me in a 1996 interview, âWe have so damn many laws, you canât drive the streets without breaking the law.â The Washington Post reported that police set up ârolling checkpoints on busy highways and pulled over motorists for minor violations, such as following too closely or improper signaling,â and âlooked for supposed âindicatorsâ of criminal activity, which can include such things as trash on the floor of a vehicle, or abundant energy drinks.â
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