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  2. Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As civil forfeiture may not be allowed, a new practice has emerged: By classifying valuables such as cars, cellphones, and wallets with cash as evidence, the police can keep them and make it very difficult and time consuming to get them back. The police can sell the items after 120 days. [107]

  3. Free land? How about a free house? Kansas town tries a ... - AOL

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    It has to be at least 1,300 square feet. It can’t be a mobile home. ... which included mention of the free house by ... who moved from Arizona to become Lincoln County’s emergency manager and ...

  4. Prop. 314 passes, allowing local law enforcement to arrest ...

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    Prop. 315 will require police and border patrol agents to use the e-verify program that determines immigration status. After which, local police can arrest the individual and a state judge can ...

  5. No-knock warrant - Wikipedia

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    The defendants would then steal cash and drugs to sell on the street. [30] [31] Kathryn Johnston was a 92-year-old Atlanta, Georgia, woman killed by three undercover police officers during a no-knock raid on November 21, 2006. Assuming her home was being invaded, Johnston fired one shot through the front door which went over the officers' heads.

  6. Private policing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Private police functions can be flexible, depending upon the financial, organizational, political, and situational circumstances of the client. [26] Murray Rothbard noted: Police service is not 'free'; it is paid for by the taxpayer, and the taxpayer is very often the poor person himself. He may very well be paying more in taxes for police now ...

  7. Are citizens’ arrests legal in Texas? State law is blurry and ...

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    Article 14.01 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states that a peace officer “or other person” can make an arrest without a warrant when an offense is committed in their presence or ...

  8. Police corruption - Wikipedia

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    A theft can also occur within a department. An officer can steal property from the department's evidence room or property room for personal use. [12] [13] Shakedowns: When a police officer is aware of a crime and the violator but accepts a bribe for not arresting the violator (Roebuck & Barker, 1973).

  9. Shopkeeper's privilege - Wikipedia

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    Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property.