The simple answer is that they shouldn't be able to keep anything they seize unless they convict you of an actual crime involving the property. Anything else is just theft. The default should be to give the goods BACK not that the government gets to keep it.
Some day they are going to take money from the wrong person and regret it.
Not necessarily because many countries have police agencies that are partially funded by confiscation of profits.
It can work well.
That said, we are now living under communist rule where police departments arrest white people for the crime of being attacked by Antifa and BLM domestic terrorists.
The simple answer is that they shouldn't be able to keep anything they seize unless they convict you of an actual crime involving the property. Anything else is just theft. The default should be to give the goods BACK not that the government gets to keep it.
Some day they are going to take money from the wrong person and regret it.
Not necessarily because many countries have police agencies that are partially funded by confiscation of profits.
It can work well.
That said, we are now living under communist rule where police departments arrest white people for the crime of being attacked by Antifa and BLM domestic terrorists.