I just stumbled upon someone asking how much cash he can carry on himself without a risk of a police officer taking it away. Then when I scrolled through comments it sounded like a police officer can decide to take away your money and NEVER EVER give it back!
Is that actually true??? I mean, the idea that police officer can take your money if they decide you have “too much” on you is insane already. But even if so, there is no way you can’t then go to police station or something and get it back!
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I can give the NZ example.
The cops can’t just grab your cash, they have to actually sue for it to be forfeited in court. This is generally from organised crime. The other option is if you’re convicted of something, the judge can order all the obviously seized cash and assets taken during a search warrant to be forfeit, but that has to be after a court case also.
If the cops are doing a drug search warrant and they see a lot of cash, they’re going to grab it, but it’s not forfeit until a judge says so for one of the above reasons.
They can’t take cash off you during a traffic stop and just keep it. No beat cop would ever do this anyway because it’s way above their pay grade, Organised Crime or Drug Squads would take care of that.
America may or may not have a better way of doing it.
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