I'm pretty unhappy with the whole idea of civil asset forfeiture.
Just the same, if anyone deserves it, it's these dummies. The police department was even warning the public that they would be out there doing this. The whole event was a stupid one.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
74 points (97.4% liked)
Portland
302 readers
2 users here now
Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
- Don't attack other users.
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The article oversells it, Oregon law only allows forfeiture on conviction.
So the vehicles are impounded for now, but likely will be forfeit eventually.
I don't agree with things like forfeiture of assets suspected to be bought using the proceeds of a crime, like seizing the house and assets of a suspected drug dealer or something because they must have bought it using cash from selling drugs.
However I have no problem seizing assets that are actively being used in a crime.
Take the cars of people street racing or driving drunk, just as you would take the guns of murderers and people performing armed robbery.
Why do they do these takeover events in populated cities? I mean they are obviously driving to a location for this so it’s not like they have to rely on public transport. Since they are driving anyways, why not just head to an abandoned airfield or abandoned mall parking lot or something. Doing this in the streets just seems dumb but n all accounts. They are more likely to get caught and more likely to injure others.
Because they are attention starved little babies.
Or, y’know, Portland International Raceway, which actually is more than happy to open its doors every Friday for guys like this to come and blow some steam off.
Pretty sure PIR requires license, registration, and insurance, and based on most of these arrests, that leaves these idiots out.
The danger is part is the appeal sadly.
Nothing like telling the street racers to get fucked to make cops and Portland be on the same side about something.
The best one out of all this:
What a trash website