<story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarciszewski</author><text>More dead police officers, and a lesser incentive for the police to rob the commoners, most likely.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To the multitude of downvoters and angry replies: I didn&amp;#x27;t say I agreed! I&amp;#x27;m just saying where these arguments usually logically end up.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&amp;gt; By no means am I a right-wing&amp;#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.&lt;p&gt;Do you mind elaborate how firearm would help with combating civil forfeiture?</text></item><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&amp;#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.&lt;p&gt;By no means am I a right-wing&amp;#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwalrus</author><text>You mean more funding for swat teams and heavier militarisation to defend themselves? Which is the only way such a move would be politically spun in this universe.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarciszewski</author><text>More dead police officers, and a lesser incentive for the police to rob the commoners, most likely.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To the multitude of downvoters and angry replies: I didn&amp;#x27;t say I agreed! I&amp;#x27;m just saying where these arguments usually logically end up.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&amp;gt; By no means am I a right-wing&amp;#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.&lt;p&gt;Do you mind elaborate how firearm would help with combating civil forfeiture?</text></item><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&amp;#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.&lt;p&gt;By no means am I a right-wing&amp;#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Which doesn&amp;#x27;t work until we get to the point of all-out civil rebellion. The US has a heavily armed citizenry now and this is obviously happening. And drawing a weapon on a police officer will end badly no matter what the cop was doing. And that&amp;#x27;s not for entirely unreasonable reasons.</text></comment>