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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

U.S. Police Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Theft & Burglary Combined

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U.S. Police Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Theft & Burglary Combined

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  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
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    Holy shit that’s insane and unjustifiable

    • daannii@lemmy.world
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      It’s illegal in the constitution. But at some point a supreme Court said it wasn’t. So.

      It definitely qualifies as “illegal seizure”.

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    Now to be fair, this does not include wage theft.

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    Racial Disparities: African Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics each made up about 31% of asset forfeiture cases, indicating potential racial disparities in how civil forfeiture is applied

    Cops stealing money from minorities, of course that’s legal. Steal infant formula to feed your baby? Straight to jail!

    Let’s see $69 Billion. 62% comes from African and Hispanic Americans. That’s $41.4 Billion from those two groups which make up 102 million Americans combined. That’s $405 stolen from every African or Hispanic American man woman and child over 19 years.

    Serve and protect indeed. ACAB.

    • Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world
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      Damn those are horrifying statistics. As a child over 19 years old I’m so happy not to be in the USA.

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    Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Other Theft & Burglary Combined

    FTFY

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    My question is where wage theft sits compared with other types of theft too. I remember it being comparable to all other types of theft some time ago, but that may have been in Australia. Does anyone know?

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      It’s only categorized as theft if it is a loss to the wealthy

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    Wage theft still outpaces all other forms of theft

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    ACAN

    • SpacePanda@mander.xyz
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      what’s this mean?

      • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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        I think it means the B key is right beside the N key on qwerty keyboards.

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          I think youre right, should had caught this, thank you

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        All Cops Are Ne’er-do-wells?

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      Narcan!

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    Cool so we should be flush with cash for other shit 😏

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