Civil asset forfeiture is the flimsy justification for taking any cash cops find on you or in your car, regardless of whether the search was legal or whether there was any valid justification for it in the first place.
The cop 'training' tells them any large amount of cash must necessarily be destined for drugs and that gives them all the reason they need to take it.
There was some comedy as Abby Martin sounded miffed John Oliver got so much attention for covering the same topic. It's fair enough as she broke it first but that comes back to what I said previously, that comedy is one hell of a delivery vehicle.
What both of them may be missing is that cops have nothing to do with enforcing the law but rather enforcing the fear. Don't go outside at night as cops will roust you and there's a good chance they will. After two a.m., you are bait. If you have money, it will be gone and it's almost impossible to get it back regardless of the lack of justification for taking it.
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