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		Volundr 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sig... Let's review: > You can get pulled over for no reason in the US and have drugs planted on you by a cop simply having a bad day. The next reply in this thread: > lol you watch too much tv. No I'm not asserting they are "asking". They won't bother to ask. They'll either plant something and take your stuff that way, or "smell drugs" and seize your assets under "civil forfeiture".

wordofx 6 months ago [–]

No they won’t. Planting evidence is so uncommon it’s hilarious you even make such an absurd claim.

Volundr 6 months ago | [–]

Of course not. The police would definitely do no such thing: https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/...

And there definitely aren't any departments funding themselves by seizing assets from people never even accused of a crime https://www.nlg-npap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Civil-As...

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