My commiserations to Canada....

[unixronin]

...Now you guys have civil forfeiture too.  At least they're requiring "proof" of membership in a "criminal organization" - so far....

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

And then you get the same kind of abuses that happen here. Someone has property the local police chief has his eye on, so a member of the department walks to the pay phone around the corner and calls in an anonymous "tip". Wham bam thank you ma'am, next thing you know there's a fill-in-later warrant and a no-knock raid, and oh dear, the poor property owner accidentally got shot because one of the officers thought the TV remote control he had in his hand was a gun, and with no-one to dispute the charges, guess who the property now belongs to.

[rbos.livejournal.com]

.. that actually happens? How would the police get control of the property? That's absurd. Seriously?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I wish I was making it up. Underfunded police departments LOVE civil forfeiture.