Kevin Drum calls our attention to the latest municipal revenue stream:
But have you heard about “forfeiture corridors”? That’s a little different — and quite a bit more lucrative. All you have to do is pull over an out-of-state driver for supposedly making an unsafe lane change, have your police dog sniff around for a bit of marijuana residue, and then use civil asset forfeiture laws to impound any cash you might find. Apparently it’s especially popular on highways leading into and out of casino towns. Radley Balko has the details here.
Combine that with the fact that police dogs can be easily manipulated to detect drugs when none are present, and the newly SCOTUS-approved right to strip search anyone for no good reason, and now you’re really ready to rock.
Can we get any dumber?
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To be fair… “no good reason” isn’t really accurate. Really it is “strip search anybody lawfully arrested”. I don’t like the idea of police departments strip searching people arrested for minor offenses, but I am not sure the SCOTUS should interfere much in the specifics of how police do their business. The SCOTUS should not be policy makers, they should only be the judges of whether a search is reasonable, not proper. I could make a reasonable argument that inmate safety can be improved by a blanket strip-search of prisoners. Even if I am not correct, it is not the job of the SCOTUS to determine facts, and it would be hard to say my reasoning is not reasonable.
I agree with you that the proper role of the court is to decide if a search is reasonable! My point is that a strip search of someone caught doing 46 in a 45 is not reasonable.
One of the more interesting aspects of the drug war, which I covered just a few days ago, is the number of people from the right and the left who are pushing for the legalization of marijuana, purely from economic and national security concerns. I detailed it on my site, but suffice it to say that the growing number of people supporting a legalized marijuana program in the US is growing. It is no longer long-haired hippies in drum circles leading the crusade. Now it’s prominent personalities and individuals of various ideologies supporting ending a “war” which clearly has not worked out.