one of the absolutely most horrible laws that exist in the U.S. today that goes totally against the presumption of innocence that is (supposedly) the bedrock of our legal framework
> That employee was being paid by the DEA a percentage of the cash seized, the IG found, and had received tens of thousands of dollars over several years. That arrangement is problematic, investigators concluded.
I think this goes even beyond civil forfeiture (which shares revenue with police departments, etc)
I think sharing it with an airline employee is out and out corruption.
Any other arrangement sets up far too many perverse incentives.
First is someone dies. Either someone goes postal, an attractive woman kills herself, a sympathetic bystander who had nothing to do with it or perhaps an otherwise decent cop who's begrudgingly getting leveraged as muscle for the scam catches a bullet.
More common is the victims of the scam pile up until some enterprising lawyer sniffs out a class action.
Obviously the solution is to vote for someone who gives them even more rights to violate yours /s
Or are crypto holders at risk of being arbitrary robbed by the government if they don't have thorough enough records?