Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why.

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Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why.
A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture.

8 December 2021

On Sunday, a Facebook post from the Dallas Police Department went viral. It depicts a police dog, Ballentine, who is a member of the department's interdiction unit, operating out of Dallas' Love Field Airport. The caption praises Ballentine for sniffing out more than $100,000 in cash from a traveler's bag. What is left out of the description is what, if anything, the traveler did wrong. When contacted by Reason, Dallas police declined to give any specifics. The only comment provided was a statement that the squad "seized $106,829.00, from a 25-year-old female who is a resident of Chicago, IL., but ...

Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why.

A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture.

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Thieving Cops Rob Innocent Woman of $100k, Send Her on Her Way, Then Brag About it On Facebook

10 December 2021

For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale using Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF). The 1980’s-era laws were designed to drain resources from powerful criminal organizations, but CAF has morphed into a tool for law enforcement agencies across the U.S. to steal money and property from countless innocent people. No criminal charge is required for this confiscation, resulting in easy inflows of cash for law enforcement departments and the proliferation of abuse. This corrupt practice is known as “policing for profit.” Activists, attorneys, politicians, judges, and ...

Thieving Cops Rob Innocent Woman of $100k, Send Her on Her Way, Then Brag About it On Facebook

Police took to Facebook this week to brag about stealing $100,000 from a woman at the airport, instead of questioning it, local media ran a puff piece for them.

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Police Oversight Board Demands Answers After Dallas Cops Seized Traveler's Cash
And some state politicians are talking about asset forfeiture reform.

16 December 2021

Last week the Dallas Police Department seized more than $100,000 in cash from an airport traveler. As the department detailed in a statement, a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the passenger's luggage, which police found to contain "nothing but blankets and two large bubble envelopes" containing $106,829 in cash. The police did not arrest the traveler but did keep the money, "subject to the civil asset forfeiture process." Now a member of the city's oversight board is demanding answers. "What I want to know are: What are the rules? And did this woman break them?" Brandon Friedman, a member of Dallas's ...

Police Oversight Board Demands Answers After Dallas Cops Seized Traveler's Cash

And some state politicians are talking about asset forfeiture reform.

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Dallas PD Brags About Stealing Money From A Woman At An Airport, Is Now Facing Scrutiny From Its Oversight Board

28 December 2021

In a spectacular bit of self-ownership, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) took to Facebook to brag about stealing money from a person at Love Field Airport. If you can't read the text or see the picture, it's a photograph of a Dallas PD drug dog standing next to several piles of money. The caption, written by the DPD, says: We need to get him some treats! K9 Officer Ballentine does it again! On 12/2/21, the Lovefield Interdiction Squad seized over $100,000 with the help of Ballentine. Good job Ballentine! The post made no mention of what criminal activity was suspected ...

Dallas PD Brags About Stealing Money From A Woman At An Airport, Is Now Facing Scrutiny From Its Oversight Board

In a spectacular bit of self-ownership, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) took to Facebook to brag about stealing money from a person at Love Field Airport. If you can't read the text or see the picture, it's a photograph of...

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Dallas Police Seized an Airline Passenger's Cash. New Information Only Makes Their Case Weaker.
Police seized more than $100,000 in cash from a 25-year-old Chicago woman for not correctly describing what her suitcase looked like.

18 February 2022

In December, Dallas police officers at the city's Love Field Airport seized a passenger's luggage based on an alert from a drug dog. There were no drugs in the bag, but they did find more than $106,000 cash wrapped in bubble wrap. The police seized the cash through asset forfeiture, but would not elaborate further on why the cash was seized or what the traveler was suspected of. Now, further information has been released, which raises additional questions about the police department's story. As Reason detailed at the time, there is no law regarding how much money a person can ...

Dallas Police Seized an Airline Passenger's Cash. New Information Only Makes Their Case Weaker.

In December, Dallas police officers at the city's Love Field Airport seized a passenger's luggage based on an alert from...

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