Thankfully the police can now confiscate any item on you that you can’t prove is yours and how you legally got it.
Are you missing a /s? Do you know how long it would take me to prove the shirt on my back is mine and how I legally got it if a cop wanted to harass me about it?
If you own an expensive watch are you just supposed to keep the 12-year-old receipt in your wallet in case you get stopped by a cop?
My wife’s wedding ring isn’t worth $10k, but it still is a hefty chunk of change. 1) I dont know how I would prove to a cop that it’s not worth 10k, and 2) even if it was, I don’t know how I would prove I didn’t buy it with drug money.
This is the equivalent to US civil forfeiture, which has been shown time and time again to be a broken system rife with abuse.
Not at all, and no need to keep receipts on you. The cops need to get approval from an on-call prosecutor (kind-of) and have probable cause. They’re not going to stop a random citizen about their wedding ring, and even if they did the prosecutor wouldn’t allow them to take it. This targets known criminals without any income flaunting expensive shit. Now their shit gets taken away, and I’m good with it.
Are you missing a /s? Do you know how long it would take me to prove the shirt on my back is mine and how I legally got it if a cop wanted to harass me about it?
If you own an expensive watch are you just supposed to keep the 12-year-old receipt in your wallet in case you get stopped by a cop?
My wife’s wedding ring isn’t worth $10k, but it still is a hefty chunk of change. 1) I dont know how I would prove to a cop that it’s not worth 10k, and 2) even if it was, I don’t know how I would prove I didn’t buy it with drug money.
This is the equivalent to US civil forfeiture, which has been shown time and time again to be a broken system rife with abuse.
Not at all, and no need to keep receipts on you. The cops need to get approval from an on-call prosecutor (kind-of) and have probable cause. They’re not going to stop a random citizen about their wedding ring, and even if they did the prosecutor wouldn’t allow them to take it. This targets known criminals without any income flaunting expensive shit. Now their shit gets taken away, and I’m good with it.
You’ve obviously not paid attention to McConnell and Trump weaponizing US courts
Yeah as an American this is uncomfortably naive. I warned my countryfolk about it once and I’ll warn others about it now. This shit doesn’t end well.