OHP Uses New Device To Seize Money Used During The Commission Of A Crime

[NWCorona]

Source: News9


"You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.
That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime.

Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.

It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month.

Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.


http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=32168555&catId=112032

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A whole other can of worms has just been opened with this one.

[Purveyor]

1. I just don't f'n know anything anymore. Beam me up!

[NWCorona]

2. For real!

[Lars39]

3. So while the dog's sniffing around your vehicle they're checking

your bank balance? Too much money in your account and all of a sudden you've been involved in crime and they seize all your money?

[NWCorona]

4. Seems like that would be the likely road this would lead to.

[Lars39]

5. And then too broke to fight back. :-(

[NWCorona]

6. Yup! This can't be allowed to stand.

[Lars39]

7. In the stretch near Nashville where

the Highway Patrol and city cops sit and wait, Homeland Security is there also.
Fish rotting from the top.

[dickthegrouch]

8. WTF happened to due process?

I'd swear out a theft complaint against any cop who even tried this on my cards.

[Delver Rootnose]

9. And who would you swear that..

..compliant out to. Mmmmmmm. We are a police state. Just face it. Of course rich people with Cayman island accounts don't have to worry.

[harrose]

10. I could see cops pulling over drivers with Clinton bumper stickers....

... saying that they were driving 5 MPH over the limit, taking their bank/ATM cards and draining their cards, claiming that the bank cards were speeding with the driver (or that the cards were used to buy gas, or whatever...).

[progree]

12. "or that the cards were used to buy gas"

[progree]

11. Don't worry. "If you can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be

given back to you", Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said.

[hr]

Whew. For a moment I was worried.



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[progree]

18. I was being sarcastic

I put a {sarcasm thingy} at the bottom of my post, instead of a so that people would see the sarcasm indicator last rather than first.

What Oklahoma is doing is an outrage. And to justify it with:

"If you can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you",

as the OHP Lieutenant did, is the most audacious, unbelievable statement in defense of this that is imaginable -- that my money is theirs until I can prove that it is mine. Orwellian.

[roamer65]

13. Try storing your cards in an Altoids tin or a metal cigarette case while driving.

Carry only your drivers license unshielded.

[nikto]

14. Sounds like BIG GUBMINT to me

[felix_numinous]

15. K&R

Corruption is one thing that does trickle down. We need reform.

[cpwm17]

16. I've been pulled over three out of four times I've driven on I-40 in east Oklahoma.

The last time for having the frame around my license plate that came with the car. It is part of the scam.

They spent some time looking for drugs. I have a Florida plate, which makes me a target in Texas and Oklahoma. I've lost track of how many times I've been pulled over in Texas. I don't get pulled over in Florida, though.

[bananas]

19. k&r nt

[eppur_se_muova]

21. WOW. I won't be going to OK for ANY reason.

Driving, flying, walking -- makes no difference. Not even passing through.

[47of74]

22. Yeah if I wasn't visiting OK before this I sure as fuck wouldn't now.

And a great big F you to the tick turds who thought this was a good idea.