In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Move Over Cams to Ticket Cars traveling speed limit (What?)– –IA Supremes cracks down on CAF auto seizures– –US Supremes Reject Driveway Snooping– Friday, June 1, 2018 Move Over Cameras To Ticket Vehicles Traveling The Speed Limit Drivers who are obeying the speed limit may still be at risk of […]
37 Blog Posts From the Civil Asset Forfeiture Tag
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: June 4, 2018
June 4, 2018 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Civil Forfeiture, DUE PROCESS, Fifth Amendment, FOURTH AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL SEARCH, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Technology, TheNewspaper, TRAFFIC STOP
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018 • 0 Comments • Black Boxes, Civil Asset Forfeiture, DUE PROCESS, FOURTH AMENDMENT, Policing for Profit, PRIVACY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Cops need warrant for car black box data in MO– –Judge scolds Detroit cops for lying about traffic stops– –UT Supremes will decide whether cops violated CAF Ban– Friday, April 20, 2018 Missouri Court Protects Black Box Data From Cops If police want to snoop through a vehicle’s black box […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture—Why should we care?
• April 6, 2018 • 0 Comments • CAF, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Civil Forfeiture, DUE PROCESS, Fifth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, FOURTH AMENDMENT, NMA, PRIVACY
Originally created to break drug lords, civil asset forfeiture or CAF has now morphed into an anything-goes situation when it comes to law enforcement confiscating cash and property. Make no mistake, CAF is a constitutional rights issue. The Fourth Amendment protects not only a person’s right to privacy but freedom from arbitrary governmental intrusions. The […]
The Drug Whisperers
• April 3, 2018 • 0 Comments • Civil Asset Forfeiture, Civil Forfeiture, DUI/DWI, Eric Peters, Ticket Quotas
You may have heard about people getting speeding tickets not based on the reading of a radar gun or other instrument subject to empirical verification but solely on the basis of an armed government worker’s “training,” his estimation — that is, his or her opinion — about how fast the alleged offender was traveling. In […]
What is a Speed Trap?
• February 2, 2018 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Civil Asset Forfeiture, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Roadblocks, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TICKET FIGHTING, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
When most people think about speed traps, they think about small town police hiding behind billboards or waiting to pick off motorists right where the speed limit changes. But the real answer is much simpler: A speed trap exists wherever traffic enforcement is focused on extracting revenue from drivers instead of improving safety, made possible […]
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