Tennessee Cops Commit Highway Robbery

Civil Forfeiture Highway Shakedowns in Tennessee

The shot of the cop cars facing the money side of the highway with their backs to the drug side is just about the most perfect metaphor for the war on drugs I have ever seen.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on May 22, 2011 at 1:43pm

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on May 22, 2011 at 3:31pm

Tennessee named #1 corrupt state.

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Permalink Reply by Van on May 22, 2011 at 3:49pm

Civil forfeiture is one of the most fucked up aspects of the war on drugs. It was originally intended to get profits of big time traffickers, the idea being to keep them from retaining the profits of illegal activity. But now they use it to steal the automobiles of people for buying a crack rock. I see this on COPS all the time. I will say that the tractor-trailer with plastic wrapped bundles of cash in the video above was most likely carrying drug money. But if you get pulled over and have 1000 dollars on you, watch out.

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on May 25, 2011 at 8:25pm

Really? No shit? How freaking rare! Hey Dudes, it ain't just in Tennessee - believe New York started the practice.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on May 25, 2011 at 10:53pm

Well that makes it okay, then.

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on May 27, 2011 at 10:23am

What an asshole - nothing in my reply indicated that I think it's okay.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on May 27, 2011 at 11:19pm

Of course not. The only thing your post indicated was that you wanted to let everyone know that this is all old news to you and that you know what it's really all about. Thanks for that valuable contribution.