I don't know if it was an actual on-the-books law, or the name, or the number.
It started when Clinton was president, and he got the blame. But I don't know if it was a distortion of the Court-Orderless Search & Seizure Law, localized police corruption or something else. It was rampant 10-15 years ago, but I haven't heard much about it lately. Here's how it went (supposedly):
Citizen A called local police to inform them that he thought his neighbor (Citizen B) was dealing drugs, based on considerable traffic to the really nice house, the boat, multiple expensive cars, etc.
Police would search the house and grounds, find a little pot (or plant it), and then confiscated the cars, boats and bank accounts. The local police dept. got half the take and the rest went somewhere else. Citizen B was never formally charged, never went to court, was never found guilty, and never got his stuff back.
From the clippings a friend sent from CA, protesters were pointing out that these 'attacks' were never perpetrated on people/properties that had minimal value, just the ones with considerable assets that could be turned to cash.
At the time, it was being passed off as legal, where it might not have been. And there were areas of the country where it was rampant, other places it didn't seem to happen. It was happening a lot in SoCal. There was some indication later on that if the police were getting warrants, they were 'distorting the truth' (lying) to the warrant judge about what they actually knew, or how well they really knew the informant.
I know more about the high-profile case in Las Vegas in 1991, since I was there at the time:
A known prostitute was jailed after arrest for soliciting. The police took the keys to her home and entered it. A man, Charles Bush, was asleep in the bedroom, and when he came out and asked what they were doing, one of the officers put him in a choke hold. When he was released, he was dead. A reporter got to a rookie officer and asked if they often entered the homes of arrested people, and the officer said, "oh, yes, all the time".
It was front-page fodder for quite a while. Odd that none of the newspapers still have much on the incident. Tidying up the image of Las Vegas, I guess.
If this was illegal, the law knew it was illegal, and not only didn't stop it, but they assisted. And if it was illegal, that was why the victims weren't prosecuted, because any first-year attorney could take care of it.
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