CBC warns Canadians: US cops will pull you over and steal your money
Found on Boing Boing on Tuesday, 16 September 2014
62,000 US drivers have been pulled over and had their cash seized by small-town American cops in the past 13 years, under civil forfeiture laws that let them declare anyone to be a probable terrorist and/or drug dealer and take their money without charge or evidence.
Because: "on an American roadway with a full wallet, in the eyes of thousands of cash-hungry cops you're a rolling ATM."
These days cops are the highwaymen they should catch.