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Originally Posted by filtherton
This is especially troublesome in light of the recent scandals surrounding the Mpls-St. Paul metro area gang task force. It was disbanded following, among other things, the discovery of widespread abuses of property confiscation laws among its members.
Why anyone would be surprised that these laws would get abused is beyond me.
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And sadly that Gang Task force is the reason why funding is being cut to necessary task forces in MN like the Drug Task force....but even though we are smart enough to know that one bad apple does not spoil the bunch....citizens allow the media to spin this very story so many times that the bunch eventually does spoil....and we end up with the distrust spoken of earlier.
As for this particular story, I envy the responders who are adimate that their spouses would never put themselves in a position to lose their property - yet history tells us that people, even those we put on a pedastale are in fact, human and make mistakes. Those mistakes should NEVER be placed on the shoulders of an innocent person...a VICTIM in every sense of the word. This is one of the few times I tip my hat at our border state WI. I believe over there, each person, married or not, is responsible for their own credit and lawfulness and in my opinion, that is how it should be.