Canadian Government Warns Its Citizens About The Danger Of Criminally Corrupt U.S. Police

Several BILLION dollars have been stolen from tourists over the last 13 years since 9/11.

Most is around an average of $8000 or less, from students traveling to attend school to potential business buyers thinking to purchase US properties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMx10rX1sY&feature=youtu.be

Cops are seizing hundreds of millions of dollars from drivers and bragging about it in chat rooms

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/6120971/cops-are-seizing-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-drivers-and

This weekend, The Washington Post published a deeply reported look at "highway interdiction," a controversial tactic that has allowed police to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists without formally charging anyone with a crime. Typically, police will stop a driver under suspicion of drug trafficking, seize their cash as evidence, and refuse to return it without a legal challenge. Only one in six seizures were challenged, typically because of the high cost of legal assistance.

"Hundreds of millions of dollars seized, all without pressing charges"

But the legal justification is only part of the practice. As private consultants sought to expand the practice, they turned to surprisingly familiar methods, including an encrypted chat room where officers could brag about their latest hauls, share tactics, and spread private information about juicy targets passing through other jurisdictions. Known as the Black Asphalt Electronic Networking and Notification System, the chat room has over 25,000 members spread across the country, most of whom are law enforcement officers. Until recently, it was hosted at a DEA intelligence center, but has never received any official government oversight. Within the system, officers are encouraged to brag about particularly big hauls, and the member with the highest seizure total at the end of the year is dubbed a "Royal Knight."

In other words, it's Reddit for the highway interdiction, turning an otherwise sketchy practice into a game of online oneupmanship. If highway cops aren't encouraged to make seizures within their department, they can get that encouragement online, with plenty of other interdiction-happy cops cheering them on. And the encouragement works: seizures have more than tripled since 2000. Any dissenting voices, worried about the legal or moral implications of grabbing cash based on the thinnest tissue of reasonable suspicion, are kept out of the conversation entirely.

Here,the WAPO-Report!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/07/police-intelligence-targets-cash/

Doublepost!

Might be a good idea for them to exchange their dough when they enter and get travelers checks.

I never travel out of country with more than 100.00 on me.

Guess the Cops would confiscate Travelers Checks as well!

after working for nopd for a while... left because it was a

Carnival of Corruption... that was 40 years ago

said that to town fathers at the conference table...

Carnival of Corruption

they let me walk out

edit... that does not mean that pd's should be federalized.... believe whole heartedly the opposite... its up to LOCAL towns folks and journalists to investigate,

but lately the media is selective... but we understand the agenda

edit again... a long long time the media is selective