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Comment by justinclift | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, that sounds dodgy as all heck.

So if someone had (say) $1000 in cash in there, they'd be told to pick out the bank notes or something.

At which point it's just gambling as to whether any particular bank note is going to get you arrested or not due to it having a bad history.

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Related story: 4 or 5 years ago my brother got held up on the street in Baltimore in a daytime robbery. The cops drove by 30 seconds later, my brother pointed out the guy, and they caught him right away. My brother was told he could only get his money back if he could provide the serial numbers for the cash he had stolen. Of course he couldn't do that.

Hah. Yeah.

Maybe 10y ago I was robbed. The investigator who took my case, a month later, asked me if I had anything to drink that night. I said, yeah, one beer about 7hr earlier. He said that because I drank that night that would close the investigation and that was that.

You may want to watch The Wire, which was problematic enough. But then, nearly two decades later We Own This City (based on the non-fiction book of the same name) which breaks down a lot of the endemic corruption in Baltimore PD.

Were there witnesses or video or some other proof independent of your brother’s claims?

I smell BS in this story..

Baltimore police is known to be corrupt, what’s BS about the police officers citing unreasonable demands for proof in an attempt to pocket the money?

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