California moves to curb police profits on seized property

[procon]

1. These seizures are just shortsighted and wrong.

If the cops take a car because some jerk committed a crime, that car is probably not solely his. More than likely it's jointly owned, and there is a wife who has done nothing wrong, but she is still going to lose her property through no fault of her own. How is that even legal?

It snowballs from there if she can't drive to work and loses her job, loses her house, and goes on welfare with her husband doing time. It ends up costing the tayers far more in the long eun than whatever meager cash the cops might get at a property auction.