Who gets this money?( I know they have auctions on the siezed properties), and hopefully these convicts, don't get out and hunt you down, due to you have something of theirs that you paid for.
2006-06-14 03:21:38 · 12 answers · asked by Moose 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
An unfortunate fact of the " Zero Tolerance" policy that allowed seizure of property obtained by illegal means, is that MUCH of the property winds up MISSING!!
Whether it is the POLICE who are 'spiriting it away', or simply terrible bureaucratic recordkeeping is unclear, but the fact still remains that the missing property does not end up fattening the public coffers through public auction as it should.
2006-06-14 03:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not kidding you, I had dated military men and a Marine told me that when he was in South America and they busted a major drug den they had to burn the money because much of it was counterfeit or dirty money, squandered by the sickness and greed of cocaine or heroin. There are barrels of money burned every year because there is certain money that is 'untouchable'. Police cannot seize money at the scene of the crime and certainly cannot use it for their own profit, meanwhile. I think a lot of it is destroyed or ammassed into the treasury so that it can recirculate, but a large amount of money can even hurt the economy (like Poland, having had printed a lot of paper money during the rise of communism, only to have the worth of money fall horribly as there was SO much of it, it was like plain paper)
2006-06-14 03:39:26 · answer #2 · answered by Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The money goes to the government.
2006-06-14 03:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by Q~T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of that money is kept in storage, but not all of it.
Some of it mysteriously ends up missing!
I wonder why? lol
2006-06-14 03:25:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The money is put back into circulation through the US Treasury.
2006-06-14 03:24:55 · answer #5 · answered by 100% Chance of Pain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I alway though the police or gove kept it. That is how they keep funding the "war of drugs."
2006-06-14 03:29:47 · answer #6 · answered by li5br2a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it goes to gov. when there is acrooked police it stay with him and make him rich, sometimes depend on how long they stay with the county they PROBALY gat it back.
2006-06-14 03:28:37 · answer #7 · answered by ahanda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is seized by the government.
2006-06-14 03:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it goes to the govt. and they usually find someway of using it for projects and stuff
2006-06-14 03:24:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the taxpayers should get their monies back... 100 fold
2006-06-14 03:33:40 · answer #10 · answered by CompletelyMe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋