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October 20, 2016 02:15 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qya_a3j0wTM/by-stealing-from-innocents-ch.html
By stealing from innocents, Chicago PD amassed tens of millions in a secret black budget for surveillance gear
Since 2009, the Chicago Police Department has seized $72M worth of property from people who were not convicted of any crime, through the discredited civil forfeiture process, keeping $48M worth of the gains (the rest went to the Cook County prosecutor's office and the Illinois State Police) in an off-the-books, unreported slush fund that it used to buy secret surveillance gear. (more…)
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