No, not at all. As far as money goes, if you have more than around a thousand dollars cash on you, that is “suspicious”, because we got cards and things, and nobody carries that kind of cash around: you must be up to mischief.
But it is a tremendous amount of work for us to drag you in, investigate, try and all that, so we will simply accuse your money of being dirty, detain it, and force you to prove its innocence. Much less work for us, since money has no rights. And by the time you have finished trying to get your money out of slam, the lawyers fees will have eaten you alive.
Right, but first they have to claim your tail light was out or you didn’t use your turn signal or that your pocket looked heavy so they thought you might have a gun. They at least have to have that before they pull you over and take your possessions. That’s all I’m saying. In Rotterdam, according to all the research I’ve done (reading this thread), if you just look like you don’t belong in those Jordache jeans, they can take them from you.
CAF is terrible and has been hashed out in multiple threads. This is also bad.
Even in this thread it’s pointed out that the police aren’t picking random well dressed but poor people off the street and stripping them. The starting point is known gang members, suspected of criminal activity that’s difficult to prove, known to have no legal income. It’s exactly the same intent and result as CAF.
