Illinois State Police troopers seized a high-performance muscle car and set it aside for the personal use of an influential police official. The Associated Press reported that a suspected drunk driver in a 2006 Dodge Charger was pulled over in January 2007. The troopers used a state seizure law to confiscate the vehicle. [More]And I almost sprayed my keyboard when I read that the "Only One" who got it heads up the state's "Merit Board."
Now that's funny.
Keep it up and these parasites may start getting what they merit...
not new. St. Louis was doing this almost 20 years ago. It was so bad that the Post-Dispatch ran a full week's expose' on the subject.
ReplyDeleteA great many of the cars were stolen from people who weren't charged with anything or were acquitted of the charges. Then, sometimes he was offered a chance to "buy back" his car, at extortionate rates. Of course, when they couldn't or wouldn't do so, the car would then be "sold" for little money to a fellow officer.
To my knowledge they never confiscated any "beaters", just nice new cars with some special attraction.
This has been going on a long time all over the country. As for it being ironic that the head of the merit board got his bribe, it isn't any more ironic than the car thieves are cops.
Yep, just like a verdict without due process, asset confiscation simply wrong.
ReplyDeleteI still write my Congress turds pretty regularly to tell them to stop this or that. Here is a link to write yours (sign up so they know who to send it to).
https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/99
Here's another recent incident:
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These bastards need to do some serious time. What are we, Russia now?
That's the sort of thing that makes me wonder about installing thermite charges in any new car I buy.
ReplyDeleteConfiscating my vehicle? Fine. *click* Have fun with your pile of slag, 'officer'.
I guess I'm safe. With the Bamster's economic plans, my "NEW CAR" is eleven years old and will just continue to get older.
ReplyDeleteI've written all my Congressional reps, and some who aren't mine. No reply. The spoils of the War on Drugs keep the centurions from looking to hard at the District of Corruption, I guess.
ReplyDeleteHere they use them as chase cars go nail people who try to avoid checkpoints, and to run down suspected drug mules on the interstate. The LAST thing needed in Copland is more testosterone.
My suggestion to the Illinois Stadt Polizei is that they SEIZE THIS.
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