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Originally Posted by Clampy
If asset forfeiture didn't exist and they weren't incentivized by fed drug grants then none of this would happen. I saw a show on TV the other day where they found 3 grams of weed on a guy and were able to take his Van.
Policing for profit.
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I've reviewed numerous cases of 4th and 5th amendment violations that shock the conscience that are unrelated to suspicions of drug related crimes.
Government agents have lots of different motives for violating the rights of citizens, so taking away one possible motive will not solve the problem. We need criminal penalties for these things.
An illegal search (or attempt) is ILLEGAL. The person making such an illegal search should be prosecuted for the same crime for which any non-government party would be prosecuted had they done the same thing.
Penetration of certain body cavities is considered rape under the law. Once the search is deemed illegal, the crime is rape. Put a few of these perps in prison for rape, and the rest will think twice when the they get the notion to perform an unjustified body cavity search.