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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3132722" data-attributes="member: 13624">Well, the haul being $19,934, I guarantee it wasn&#039;t all $100&#039;s.&nbsp; I suspect the officer chose carefully what to display in order to make it look as bad as possible, like they do with pretty much every perp walk or televised search ever (what, you think the TV crews just happened to be there at the time?&nbsp; It&#039;s all theater, and a lot of those boxes are either empty or full of irrelevant stuff just to pad the haul).But, as GTG says, it&#039;s not important whether it was legit or not; the search wasn&#039;t, and the police should be penalized for an illegal search, else they&#039;re no better than the criminals they&#039;re supposed to be catching.&nbsp; I&#039;m just glad the court ordered not only the return of the seized money, but legal fees as well.&nbsp; Pity it&#039;ll come from the taxpayer instead of the officer personally...and something tells me the only reprimand he&#039;ll receive is an off-the-record one for having his body cam functional during the search.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3132722, member: 13624"] Well, the haul being $19,934, I guarantee it wasn't [I]all[/I] $100's. I suspect the officer chose carefully what to display in order to make it look as bad as possible, like they do with pretty much every perp walk or televised search ever (what, you think the TV crews just [I]happened[/I] to be there at the time? It's all theater, and a lot of those boxes are either empty or full of irrelevant stuff just to pad the haul). But, as GTG says, it's not important whether it was legit or not; the search wasn't, and the police should be penalized for an illegal search, else they're no better than the criminals they're supposed to be catching. I'm just glad the court ordered not only the return of the seized money, but legal fees as well. Pity it'll come from the taxpayer instead of the officer personally...and something tells me the only reprimand he'll receive is an off-the-record one for having his body cam functional during the search. [/QUOTE]

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