• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    For fucks sake: its money. Why would you turn it in?

    There is nothing identifiable about it. It makes no sense. Besides at the rate the US is going it will have halved in purchase power in the next week anyway.

    • I’m assuming our law enforcement is long accustomed to the spoils of asset forfeiture, and believe they are entitled to every bit of loose cash or liquidatable valuables they find, including in your wallet, in your car or on your property during an unlawful search.

      Surveillance experts have been warning about the mission creep of mass surveillance since before the Snowden reports.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Plot twist: he also said something mildly disparaging about Ice or Charlie Kirk on the internet. Get 'em, boys!

    Naturally, we should spend all of our money on cops and not social services. /s Fuck cops.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    It’s real.

    He turned the money in.

    You have to wonder: How did this come to anyone’s attention in the first place? But it could be that the person who lost the money asked for help, and the cameras caught the story.

    So this may not be as baleful a sign of our times as it at first seems. But how much effort do police departments make for stolen bicycles? It’s definitely an example of the cops taking a crime seriously, not because the crime is serious, but because the case is easy.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    This can’t be real. Unless he took it from a wallet he found on the ground, there is no crime. This feels like ragebait. Does anyone have a credible link?

  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    LET THE MAN KEEP IT. HE BENT OVER, PICKED UP DISCARDED THINGS AND FOUND PURPOSE FOR IT. NOT ONLY IS THAT CLEANING UP LITTER ITS RECYCLING. THATS WORTH $30

  • Zephorah@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    Who would actually turn him in though?

    There’s also Luigi Mangioni to consider. Those McDonald’s employees made public the fact that rewards for turning people in, don’t happen, the majority of the time.

    Even if the “crime” is more egregious than picking up $30 blowing in the wind, who would bother?

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        No, last check.

        I’ve not tried to claim one, but the reported info from people who look for people using OSINT to try to claim rewards is that it’s complicated.

        Some read “if convicted” as a contingency. “Up to” can be in the wording. Which agrency posted the reward? Is that who you called? Did you talk to someone and get supervisor approval (my favorite) before giving info on someone?

        Who does that, by the way? What if they say no, not in the budget any more, and then you decline to give info, now are you guilty of something chargeable?