"Common People Do Not Carry This Much Currency" – How Police Justify Stealing American Citizens' Money

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-07/common-people-do-not-carry-much-currency-%E2%80%93-how-police-justify-stealing-american-citi

Police confiscating Americans’ hard earned cash, as well as a wide variety of other valuables, without an arrest or conviction is a disturbing and growing practice throughput these United States. Since cops get to keep the seized funds and use the money on pretty much anything they want, the practice is becoming endemic in certain parts of the nation. The theft is often referred to simply as civil forfeiture, or civil asset forfeiture. Incredibly, under civil forfeiture laws your property is incredibly “guilty until you prove it innocent.”