Confiscated property

The problem in the L.A. district goes back many years... it began with LAPD officers and cops from all of the cities around Los Angeles getting requests from their kids for boom boxes and leather jackets. All a cop had to do was drive into L.A.s predominantly black or brown neighborhood, stop a kid for drugs, then confiscate his jacket and/or radio and claim it as asset forfeiture.

Today the problem is systemic and so wide spread that even people in our agency are deeply involved... and there is no place a victim can go to complain about being ripped off by a cop or DEA agent because no police station will take a report from a victim... or take the report seriously.

If you ask anyone in LE working the LA area to show you receipts for some of the more expensive stuff in their homes they would not be able to produce a shred of paper.

FBI could have a literal 'field day' in the LAFD investigating and prosecuting dirt in every LE agency in LA county... that is... if FBI was interested... and they're not. FBI is too busy looking for Osama's moles in the public libraries or at the telephone company switch rooms.

Anytime you have a SAC ordering his subordinates to carry confiscated property from the street to his office you know the problem is not only widespread, the guilty no long worry or care about who witnesses what they do...