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| Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 25 2018, 07:40 PM (121 Views) | |
| Drudge X | Apr 25 2018, 07:40 PM Post #1 |
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https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 25 2018, 07:43 PM Post #2 |
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Leftism are exceptional at creating s**thole. From article..."In 2007, Chicago's budget had a $94 million deficit. By the time current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011, after years of steadily rising structural deficits and a crippling recession, the city was facing a $650 million annual budget gap, not to mention billions upon billions of dollars in unfunded public pension liabilities. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| jake58 | Apr 27 2018, 07:46 AM Post #3 |
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I understand that the community has shrunk here a bit but this is one of those issues which should cross party lines and p!ss off everyone... cities using asset forfeiture as a budget line item. We saw this when the DoJ did an investigation in Ferguson, the govt balancing their budget on the backs of poor people(via moving violations), those who can least afford these ridiculous fines and who need their vehicles to scratch out whatever meager existence they can. It points to the growing adversarial relationship of govt, its stormtrooper enforcement mechanism and the people they supposedly serve. It's appalling and more light needs to be shown on it. Chicago is certainly not the only example and there is proposed federal legislation to reign in some of the worst offenses over objections from the police who apparently balance their budgets thru stealing from people. |
| That which can be asserted without evidence; can be dismissed without evidence- Christopher Hitchens | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 27 2018, 10:24 AM Post #4 |
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Solution is easy. Vote for a person who can put an end to this practice. Here is the other. The left always link crime to poverty. They may want to look which party is creating poverty for the very same people they promised to help. I am very positive the real debt in Chicago including unfunded liabilities are much higher than stated in the article. Chicagoans put these progressive in office. These people are putting Chicagoans out of their homes. Somebody's gotta foot the bill for these criminal organization public unions. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| George Aligator | Apr 27 2018, 12:52 PM Post #5 |
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This story ^^^ is an excellent illustration of the strain of Southern culture which runs through Illinois, from the Kentucky border as far north as Chicago. Impounding vehicles and other property under laws that are deliberately liberal about necessary cause is a way of life in Deep South states from the Florida panhandle to the Texas border and has been for years. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| BuckFan | Apr 27 2018, 01:12 PM Post #6 |
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You mean like this? https://www.thestreet.com/story/14237541/1/civil-forfeiture-trump-resurrects-an-ugly-practice-for-no-reason.html |
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| Drudge X | Apr 27 2018, 01:24 PM Post #7 |
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Yes. And you why this s**t continues? 1. Sanctuary cities 2. Public unions |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| _g R_ | Apr 27 2018, 01:24 PM Post #8 |
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You're stopped carrying heroin and don't even bother to at least crotch it ? Byrd is very lucky that guy didn't stash it under the seat because he would have been charged for it. On this early summer night, Byrd was giving a client, a man he says he had never met before, a ride in his Cadillac DeVille. Police pulled both of them out of the car and searched them. Byrd was clean, but in his passenger's pocket was a bag of heroin the size of a tennis ball. |
| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 27 2018, 01:30 PM Post #9 |
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I don't trust this guy either. In this day and age, you don't give someone you never met a ride without some sort of quid pro quo. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| BuckFan | Apr 27 2018, 01:35 PM Post #10 |
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Which have nothing to do with the topic or my link. Did you miss the part about it being Trump's Justice Department? It is the same thing going on in this article. |
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| _g R_ | Apr 27 2018, 01:54 PM Post #11 |
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Especially not the type of person who would be carrying 50 - 100 grams ? of smack. Edited by _g R_, Apr 27 2018, 01:55 PM.
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| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| Robert Stout | Apr 27 2018, 02:25 PM Post #12 |
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A dealer wants to transport his 8-ball of smack in a vehicle unlikely to be stopped by police...............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 27 2018, 03:55 PM Post #13 |
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Get real. Had the Obama administration was serious, he could have ended this long ago. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| ringotuna | Apr 28 2018, 03:34 AM Post #14 |
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"As the map below shows, very few states can proudly declare that they've put their citizenry first in the creation of their asset forfeiture laws :" ![]() https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/09/this-map-details-whether-asset-forfeitur |
| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| ringotuna | May 1 2018, 05:31 AM Post #15 |
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| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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