Adding to this question to hopefully get a salient answer...
The concept of innocent until proven guilty seems like a complete farce now with forfeiture and seizure laws being so heavily swayed towards the police and their 'investigations'. I am reading more stories every day about suspected crime and investigations by police that end up without a single conviction yet hundreds of thousands of dollars of property are seized. This seems like nothing more than sanctioned money-grabs to me.
Another effect seems to be that even if the people being investigated were found innocent of the original reason for a warrant, the police manage to insert vague obstruction of justice charges to validate the effort.
Any opinion on when we can get back to a system where police need evidence to prove something other than their trumped up stories?
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Adding to this question to hopefully get a salient answer... The concept of innocent until proven guilty seems like a complete farce now with forfeiture and seizure laws being so heavily swayed towards the police and their 'investigations'. I am reading more stories every day about suspected crime and investigations by police that end up without a single conviction yet hundreds of thousands of dollars of property are seized. This seems like nothing more than sanctioned money-grabs to me. Another effect seems to be that even if the people being investigated were found innocent of the original reason for a warrant, the police manage to insert vague obstruction of justice charges to validate the effort. Any opinion on when we can get back to a system where police need evidence to prove something other than their trumped up stories?
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