We’ve all seen the faux scenarios acted out on television and in movies, where one jokes are actually gets a background check on a suitor. But, what if it is not just a joke, or an idea merely for entertainment value? What if checking the criminal history for those entering our personal lives became standard? With the help of the world wide web, such a thought may soon become a common reality. When searching the internet, one quick look-up of “criminal background check” yields dozens, if not hundreds of sites just for this purpose. Many criminal search sites may, at first glance, seem like a scams, asking for money in return for a history that no one can really verify up front. But, from my own experience, some criminal background sites are legit. For a mere $10 in many cases, one can research the shady past of just about anyone. I am weary of personal criminal search websites which have increment pricing, vowing to divulge deeper information for more money. But, honestly, one digression in someone’s past may warrant enough for the “searcher” to have no need for further information.

The best way I have found to perform a criminal background check is basically free as long as you live in a progressive, internet oriented jurisdiction. For instance, in Pennsylvania, one can search by name and county to find criminal court history of anyone with a troubled past in that particular county. Of course, one would have to search multiple counties for a thorough check. It also shows every case associated with that person, guilty or not, having cases closed or open.

One’s judgment comes more into play when performing criminal searches. Especially if the person being searched is truly not guilty. Moral issues are definitely brought to the forefront with personal searches of this nature. The issues of integrity and honesty are brought to light when dealing with criminal background checks for personal use. What if there is a mistake? What if there is a false positive? And, how does one use the information they find? Breaking up, avoidance, and even restraining orders may unnecessarily occur. Also, true love knows no bounds and that might be enough to dismiss any past faults. One thing is for sure, you can find anything if you look hard enough. Some companies run background checks as employers, and I have known several to use that route for their own personal use. It is becoming more common every day. Seemingly, as we get more connected through the internet, we can also put up more walls if deemed necessary by the information we find. Personally, I’m a risk taker, and I like the good, old-fashioned way, taking my chances, and leaving the past in the past.

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Call the police about a domestic violence situation in the 1960s, and the response may have been sympathetic but often was not. People were told to work it out or sleep it off. Call the police about a domestic violence situation in the first decade of the 21st century, and the response is completely different: there will probably be an arrest and the victim will be told of social service and legal options.

The response to domestic violence has changed drastically and positively in a single generation. The domestic violence programs were founded in the early 1970s as shelters for battered women; the first one was in England but they came to the U.S. very soon. At that time, these shelters were designed for women to stay a few days because at that time no one really knew the kinds of services that would be most helpful for victims of domestic violence and their children. Shelters were often a project of the women’s movement and as such were marginalized in the world of social services in a community.

Relations with the police in those days were not generally strong for a number of reasons. One is that domestic violence runs are really dangerous for police officers and they were frustrated with having to deal with the same families over and over. At that point, they typically did not see the shelter as an ally and a service that could prevent violence towards officers. Another is that as a part of the women’s movement, shelters seemed strange and somewhat threatening to mainstream law enforcement.

In the first twenty years of their existence, shelters developed in a number of ways. First off, as shelter personnel listened to the needs of the people using their services, domestic violence programs changed. Families could stay longer than just a few days and ultimately some larger programs created transitional housing where families could stay for a year or two. Domestic violence programs began also to create legal advocacy programs with personnel who would go to criminal court with victims and who would explain what was going to happen and the victim’s legal options. They also began to create programs for the many children who stayed in the shelters.

Domestic violence programs began to network with each other as more and more communities developed programs. In the state of Ohio, for example, the marriage license tax helps to pay for domestic violence programs in each county, which became incentive for each county to develop a program. Shelters networked to serve clients, particularly when a situation became dangerous enough that a client needed to get out of town. But they also began to create statewide organizations and eventually a national organization, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. By working together in state and national organizations, domestic violence programs shared information and effective strategies for advocating for their clients with each other.

Within each community, the domestic violence program became a major player in the social service network. Getting into the network was a function of having survived in the community even while marginalized but also through gaining a reputation for being able to change relationships at least in some families. Children’s services workers often recognized that when women were in shelters, there was staff observing family relationships and that was helpful to their planning for potential victims of abuse and neglect.

Over time, relations with law enforcement changed, too. In one town, the police officers and court official began to notice that when the shelter legal advocate worked with a victim, the victim did not drop charges. They began to feel that their efforts in helping families with violence problems would actually lead to something positive instead of just going to the same old houses over and over again. In some communities, police response options began to be studied and it was discovered that when an arrest was made, police were less likely to be called back to the family’s home. This led to mandatory arrest policies in many cities. In order to implement mandatory arrest, police officers had to be trained in understanding the dynamics of domestic violence and this training was part of the change in their responses.

Another area where change is really evident is the church. During the 1960s it was not uncommon for women to be encouraged by the church to stay in violent relationships because “God hates divorce.” Over time, ministers and church people have gotten involved with domestic violence programs as volunteers and donors and have learned about what it is really like in a violent family. Now, many ministers and pastors advise victims to get out of violent relationships. Nowadays, shelters are a mainstream social service agency, along with alcohol and drug treatment programs, children’s services, and many other social services in a typical community.

Domestic violence programs may offer a wide range of services, from shelter to community-based support groups, long term housing, legal advocacy, advocacy in other areas of life, and even programs for the abusers. While average citizens may not know much about domestic violence programs in their community, they probably know that these programs exist—domestic violence programs and their values have become part of Americans’ consciousness.

Domestic violence programs have also become better funded and often they have moved from old rickety houses to spacious and professional-looking quarters, sometimes to buildings that were specifically designed to be shelters. In the past forty years we have moved from racist laws to having an African American President. But progress in Civil Rights has not been our only achievement. America’s response to domestic violence has moved from non-existent to very effective and helpful. While there are many social issues that remain a problem for our culture, our children at least know that both racism and family violence are wrong.

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It is important for citizens of the United States to support these homes and provide abused women with things they may need to survive. There is a fear that domestic violence will increase in the United States as the economy continues to plummet. Often domestic abuse increases when there is stress in the household, job loss, potential of losing ones home, car and not being able to pay bills increase stress and often leads to drinking and further abuse.

It is the goal of agencies to help reduce these stresses and help families struggling with the potential of violence in the home so that we can reduce the number of women and children in the emergency room. It is very important that we educate those involved in domestic violence and abuse. There is a need to provide counseling to the abuser as well as the abused. The person being abused is not the only victim in this situation, often the abuser was abused as a child, he learned the behavior from somewhere. His or her actions will continue if we do not re direct him or her and teach him ways to deal with his anger, stress and frustration other than by hitting those they love and care for the most.

Domestic abuse is not always the wife or girlfriend being abused by the husband, there are cases in which the husband is being abused as well. Often the abuse goes both ways, the wife is hitting as much as the husband is. The best case scenario in situations like this is for the couple to separate and take classes to learn to deal with their anger. If they cannot be together without causing one another harm then they do not need to be together at all.

Domestic abuse also includes children, children see their parents being abused and at times the children are the ones being abused. Often if the father abuses the child, the mother is then verbally abused so that she will not report the actions of the father. Her goal is to protect her husband and does not see that what is happening to her children is wrong and needs to be stopped. She is so beat down emotionally that she does not have the energy to remove her children from the situation. In cases like this it is necessary for The Department of Children Services to step in and remove the children from harms way. Often when this happens the mothers are convinced to leave the fathers and to seek help for themselves as well.

Domestic violence in the United States is not just a problem for the police, social services and hospitals. It is a problem for all of us, and it is necessary for us to do what we can to help protect the victims of abuse.

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In homes across America women (and sometimes men) suffer at the hands of those they love. Many victims of domestic abuse stay silent out of fear or a belief that “he didn’t mean it” or “he will change”. At the root, domestic violence shouldn’t happen to anyone, and people should not hurt the ones they love. Staying in a violent relationship damages the body and self-esteem of the victim and also distorts a child’s understanding of relationships.

About 1 out of 3 women will experience physical or sexual abuse at some point in her life. Abusers use physical and emotional methods to gain and maintain control over their victims. Victims can be anyone, wives or husbands, wealthy or not. Violence spans all classes and colors of people but it more prevalent in households with lower incomes. Teenage or elderly couples are not immune from abuse either, it can occur as violent physical acts or cruel emotional torment.

The abusers are just as diverse. They can be drug addicts, jealous spouses, and people with low self-esteem. While anyone can be an abuser there are certain signs that most will exhibit. These type of people have short fuses, have a sense of entitlement and see a partner as belonging to them. Most abusers know that their behavior is wrong and try to hide it away from the public eye, this is why it is very important to trust a friend or family member when they come forward and tell you about abuse rather than brushing them off because you can see it for yourself. They can react violently and hurt the victim physically or forcing them into sexual contact, emotional abusers restrict the victim’s lifestyle and contact with friends and family through threats, manipulation and demeaning them emotionally.
Some abusers manipulate children or withhold money a strategy of control, this can leave a victim feeling helpless and dependent on the abuser. The common thread is that abusers mean to break the victim down, to make them feel worthless and keep them under their control. Victims of abuse know that something is wrong, often they feel stuck in the bad situation because of a dependency on the abuser, family pressure, not wanting to come forward with an accusation for fear of retaliation or discrimination or a desire to “stay together for the kids”.

With the support of their family, victims and their children can leave abusive relationships to lead lives that are much more secure. Staying in an abusive relationship can have different affects on children. They may grow up thinking that abuse is acceptable, or grow to resent the parents both for the abuse and for the exposure to it.

There are many organizations that offer help in the form of safe shelters, counseling, legal advice and emotional support. There are national and local organizations of all types that are ready and willing to offer an ear and help. Once a victim decides to leave they need the protection and support of the law, friends, and family. A victim should make a plan of escape, protecting themselves and their children. Police officers are willing to accompany victims in moving out to provide protection if the abuser tries to prevent them from leaving.

Once out of the bad situation the victim must not fall back into the relationship, unless strong therapy and change has occurred. During this time the abused will need emotional support and reassurance. They may find their whole life uprooted, looking for a new job, a new place to live, all why trying to avoid contact with the abuser. It is a long road to rebuild self-esteem and confidence after abuse, and there may be emotional scars that will never heal. Victims need remember than no matter how hard they think it is to leave, anything is better than ending up dead.

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What is Money Laundering? Black Money?

The origin of the expression “money laundering” is that money acquired illegally is called dirty money . This money is often derived from trafficking in weapons, drugs, human beings or other mafia activities. Laundering money allows the money to be spent to without any illegal acts being tied to it. Another possible origin of the term “money laundering” comes from the fact that Al Capone, the head of a Mafia family in the in 1920’s in Chicago, used a chain of laundries called the the Sanitary Cleaning Shops . This allowed him to cover illegal money and recycle resources from many of its illicit activities. Money laundering was not used in a court case until 1982. However, the arrest of Al Capone for tax evasion, and not for crimes committed, shows the importance and difficulty of laundering money in the fight against organized crime.

The mafioso Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky right arm from 1932 understood the importance of inventing new techniques for money laundering, including through the network of politically independent islands or the well known terms, offshore countries. Money-laundering methods With the fight becoming increasingly important against the laundering of money from banks and tax havens, as well as the lifting of banking secrecy on the orders of Justice, criminals were forced to turn to others to launder their money. Businesses such as jewelers and companies who commonly import and export were the first targets to launder money. The creation of a number of false invoices from dummy companies can pose as clean money.

But there are of course many other methods, the imagination of criminals in this case is almost limitless, for example, smurfing is probably the most common method of money laundering. This method requires the involvement of many individuals whose role is to deposit cash in bank accounts or to obtain bank drafts of less than $10k of the currency of the said country to avoid the reporting threshold. Complicity bank is when an employee of the bank was criminally involved to facilitate the process of money laundering.

Another way to launder money is called company remittance and exchange, in this method offices make available to their clients that allow them to earn foreign currency that can be taken across the border. It may also, through these offices, telegraph money to accounts in foreign banks. It is even possible to obtain mandates, bank checks and travelers checks through these companies. Procurement of goods for cash is were launderers buy and pay cash for high value goods such as cars, boats and certain luxury goods such as jewelry or electronic equipment. They will use these items, but they buying on behalf of a partner. Electronic Funds Transfer, also known as electronic or wire transfers, is a method which the criminal can transfer funds from one city or one country to another to avoid the physical transportation of money. Money orders are used in technique which exchanges cash against mandates outpost, which are then sent abroad to end bank deposit.

Credit cards can be used by criminals pay the balance in excess of their credit cards and keep a high credit balance which can be used in many ways such as purchasing goods or conversion value of the credit balance in check. Casinos used to be commonly used launderers where they buy tokens in exchange for cash and then collect their fees by check. Refining is a technique which involves exchanging small against large cuts in order to decrease the volume. To this end, the money launderer exchange large sums of money from one bank to another to avoid arousing suspicion. This is to reduce the large sums of money.

Alteration of values is when launderer purchases a property of a person willing to declare a price significantly below the real value of the property and pay the difference in cash “in secret”. The launderer can buy a home worth two million dollars for only a million and secretly send the seller the rest of the money it owes. After a certain period of detention of the property, the money launderer sells its real price, or two million dollars. Auto loans are used when a dealer gives an accomplice money illegally. This accomplice lends a sum equivalent loan documents in support, to create the illusion that the criminal money is legitimate. The schedule for repayment of the loan by the Criminal adds to the appearance of legitimacy of the combine, and provides yet another way to transfer funds.

Amalgamation of funds in legitimate businesses is a metheod of money laundering by criminal organizations and individuals that are involved where money is landered by investing in companies that normally have a high volume of cash transactions to include the proceeds of crime to business legitimate brewed by the company. Finally, some criminals buy businesses that generate gross receipts from sales in cash. This is the case of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, and vending machine companies. They then invest those funds obtained by fraudulent means by combining with an income that otherwise would not be sufficient to support a company honest.

With globalization of trade and capital are becoming increasingly important and frequent, the fight against money laundering is now done on an international scale. Thus, groups like the FATF (Financial Action Task Force), meet regularly to develop and implement new methods to combat and adapt to new techniques of criminals. Money laundering contributes (among others) the financing of terrorism, political parties, unions, etc.. States have established various agencies and services in the fight against money laundering.

However, criminals are finding it increasingly difficult to use this method because of the guiding principles, practices and training methods advocated all over the world including the United States, Canadian Bankers Association (CBA), and in France with the French Banking Federation. Additionally strict enforcement of legislation (Monetary and Financial Code and Penal Code) along with banking regulation had made money laundering tougher to perform.

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Criminal investigation has a long history, both formally and informally. As long as there has been gossip, there have been people who have investigated whatever allegations a cave person might have against another cave person: that guy stole my mastodon bone! Eavesdropping is as old as spoken language and it is probable that since the dawn of time some folks hid in the bushes to keep an eye on what other folks were doing. On a more formal level, investigative services arose as an alternative to policing, which did not make official law enforcement very happy at first.

In fact, the first private detective, Eugène François Vidocq, was arrested for his work. He got out on appeal. Sherlock Holmes, as a character, was created while private detective work, as a profession, was rising in popularity. Holmes’s main strategy for solving a crime was a powerful sense of logic; he could look at a series of clues and figure out a chain of events from that. Real detective work, though, competed with police work and thus developed technologies that are familiar to anyone who watches crime shows on television: ballistics, plaster shoe tracks, and even bond paper that was more difficult to be forged. All of these were created by Vidocq. Private businesses began noticing the advantage of hiring a private investigation agency. If law enforcement couldn’t catch Jesse James and his gang, then maybe the Pinkertons could.

Even today, companies hire private eyes to keep employees from stealing secrets and selling them to competitors. Preventing loss via shoplifting has become a major part of the investigative services industry currently. While police officers are legally in charge of investigating a crime scene, even Sherlock Holmes did not rely simply on the word of others about the clues. He observed the crime scene himself. Private investigators look at clues from crime scenes, especially if there might be a civil court case connected to the crime or when citizens feel a crime should be investigated more thoroughly than the police can do in a given case.

A person who is accused of a crime may hire a private detective to find evidence of someone else’s guilt. There is an art to reading the clues at a crime scene—of knowing what is a real clue and what might have been staged, being able to figure out how marks such as blood splatters or tire tracks might have been made, being able to spot the tiniest detail that is out of place and potentially a great source of information.

There is also an art to questioning people, to see the little flick of the eye that might indicate prevarication, to keep track of details to see if there is consistency across all witnesses. The need for the power of observation has not changed since the days of Sherlock Holmes. What has changed, and this is what would be very different for old Sherlock, is technology. The World Wide Web has added a new moniker to the old PI—“web detective.” The web provides a vast array of information that can assist a private eye in an investigation. For example, one can find property records, business filings, court records, property tax records, not to mention what people put on the web about themselves in social networking sites.

Instead of having to go to the county court house for dusty records in obscure boxes or run through miles of microfilm in a library, this information is a search and a few clicks away. Information searches these days are a lot more detailed than they used to be and they take far less time.

Forensic computing and forensic accounting have arisen as specialties in private investigation agencies as a result of technology. While embezzlement has taken place for as long as there has been any form of exchange of goods or money between human beings, modern embezzlement has become complex with the electronic network of banks and business. Embezzlers, of course, do their best to wipe their hard disks of evidence, but a good private eye with some hacking skills can find the smoking gun, even if it is in binary.

Computers have escalated the crime of identity theft, which has become as every day as the common cold. Here is where a private detective can really help a victim to figure out who is stealing the information and to track the chain of crimes that have been committed. Private eyes can also follow the money and help to break up crime rings that make use of false identities. Another change that would shock Sherlock is the global nature of business and relationships and therefore detective agency work. Drugs, money, goods, even people are smuggled from here to there, to avoid some law or other. Federal agents at the border can only do so much. Private detectives even work for environmental non-profit organizations to prevent the smuggling of endangered species across various national borders.

The material items a detective is working with have changed drastically since the time of Sherlock Holmes. We can do DNA tests, fingerprint identification, and use technology in so many other ways to figure out who is doing what to whom—to find and examine evidence. We can watch people with infrared heat sensing devices or even look up a picture of their neighborhood on a satellite.

The people haven’t changed. They are still cheating on each other, still tucking merchandise in their coats, still pocketing the cash, still faking the books, still running off with the kids in a custody battle, still bootlegging or selling drugs, still killing, still forging money and other documents, still trying to get you to wire them $300 so you can get the inheritance from Nigeria. And all the people affected by these activities still require the services of a private detective agency. What also has not changed about being a private detective is what Sherlock and our modern PI’s share: an ability to find the pieces and put puzzles together. This requires stick-to-itiveness and creativity. People who want to hide their activities have the motivation to explore new ways of doing so.

Investigative services continue to advance the technology of finding information in ways that Sherlock Holmes could not have predicted (although his brother Mycroft would have been a phenomenal hacker), but would nevertheless have approved.

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A successful expungement by a citizen will result in this particular instance of their criminal profile to be expunged. Although expungement cases are put forth to remove a criminal record, the proceeding is considered a civil action where the plaintiff is asking the count to have the incriminating records removed. It must be noted that even though a successful verdit is reached by the plaintiff in an expungement case, in some states not all of the criminal record is removed and in some cases law enforcement is still able to access the full criminal record.

Individuals filing these expungement processes may represent themselves ( appearing pro se ) or hire an attorney for representation. Besides the obvious, most individuals filing for an expungement are doing so to prevent future employers, colleges or educational institutions, business partners, or any other institution seeking personal criminal records or background checks from seeing their criminal infraction.

It is also widely known that most states perform mandatory expungement of juvenile records once they turn a certain age (17 to 18), where the criminal records are either sealed or destroyed. The goal of this juvenile expungement is to remove criminal or delinquent acts from the youths record. This allows the minor to have a clean slate as they move into adulthood, with the assumption that they had learned from their previous youth mistakes.

How does one Qualify for an Expungement?

As the law for expunging a criminal record is different from state to state, so are the qualifications to be able to file a civil expungment. I will list and explain a few expungment qualifications which are generally standard in most states. One, the expunge must have no other criminal actions interfering with the current removal request. The plaintiff must not have an excessive amount of prior convictions against him/her. Three, the seriousness of the criminal offense has an impact on the expungement request. A certain holding or waiting period must be met before filing an expungement. Any sentence given to the requestor must have been met. Six, there must not be any pending criminal proceedings or criminal investigations. The relating action was disposed with no conviction. The individual who commited the criminal act must file the expungement themselves or have their lawyer do so for them. The type of criminal conviction is also a qualification, for example in most cases, sex offenders are not eligible for expungement. And finally, in general most states require people filing expungements to have completed probation without any infractions. Here is an example of California’s Petition for Expungement (PDF)

Examples of States Specific Expungement Laws:

Below are two examples of Texas and California’s expungement rules. As you will see, some of the requirements and qualifications are the same and some are different.

Arizona Expungement Law: Arizona does not allow criminal records to be expunged. However, when Arizona criminals turn 99 their criminal record is wiped clean similar to juveniles when they turn 18.

Texas Expungement Law: Texas allows the expungement of arrests who did not result in a guilty plea or a class C misdemeanor if defendant received deferred adjudication, and completed community supervision. The release, dissemination, or use of expunged records by any agency is strictly prohibited. The plaintiff is allowed to deny their criminal offense, the relating arrest, and expungement order after a successful expungment ruling, unless under oath in the court of law. The individual is not eligible for expungment if they were found guilty, pled guilty, or pled no contest to an offense other than a class “C” misdemeanor. However, one may be eligible for a non-disclosure if deferred adjudication was granted. (ref: Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 55)

California Expungement Law: California allows anyone who is convicted of a crime to petition the court to re-open their case for dismissal. The plaintiff must complete probation, pay all fines / restitution, have not served a sentence in state prison for the offense, and not being charge for any other crime. The courts can may choose to expunge the offense if it is in the best interest of justice to do so. The result of a successful expungement in California will not erase the criminal record, but it will change the criminal record to a dismissal. After the expungement, the petitioner can legally answer to not having even been convicted of said crime, with a few rare exceptions. (ref: California Penal Code section 1203.4)

If you are interested in additional expungement information for an arrest, criminal conviction, or criminal action, it is recommended you contact a local attorney for exact expungement eligibility requirements.

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As the massive amount of criminals being caught in the US there are plenty property for sale to the public which has been forfeited under laws enforced by local , state and federal agencies. The property is normally available to the public through auctions, normally called police auctions or government auctions. These type of seized, surplus or abandoned properties are generally held in a public auction and recently have become popular through online auctions. There are an estimated 3000+ police or government agency auctions of this nature nationwide.

The items auctioned off to the public often are sold at 95% of their original value. In most local, state, and federal agencies sell to the highest bidder, with the winner having to pay for the property immediately. Taxes are also applied to the auction sales price. Also, seized property auction items are sold ‘as is’ with no warranty, no refunds, and no returns.

Police auctions remain a mystery to most of us… we see them alluded to on television cop shows and in cop movies but for the most part none of us really understand what they are, how they work or even why, where or when they get held. Police auctions, believe it or not, are an absolute necessity in order to keep running the law enforcement agencies that protect us. They started out as a quick and clever way to rid law enforcement agency store rooms, parking lots and back lots of stuff that they literally do not have any room for any longer. While all this was going on someone came to the conclusion that they could actually make a buck (or two or three) while doing this… and the rest is pretty much history.

Police auctions have become a staple revenue producer for their respective agencies and now routinely show up in the budget line of the fiscal budgets for running the agencies. Found money in its truest form… Confiscated goods and property are the backbone of all good police auctions.

How are Police Auction items confiscated? With the recent additions to law of various codicils which allow for goods and property which are present when arrests are being made. It seems fair when you step back and look at it objectively. Criminals sacrifice the booty of their ill-gotten gains when their hands are caught in the cookie jar so to speak. Bought yourself a stereo? or a camera? or a Lamborghini? with the money you got from robbing banks or that you made from selling drugs then don’t be surprised (or offended) when the sale of these confiscated items is funding increased police coverage to try and catch any of your cohorts, accomplices or similarly criminal counterparts.

Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) doesn’t stick its nose into these affairs. There are definite gray areas of constitutionality there… even the most jaded (or conservative) can see that… but for the most part these are waived or suspended in the pursuit of bringing criminals to justice. So, even though your local police precinct never really intended itself to be set up as an adjunct BEST BUY store, the need for this drives the commerce and money starts flowing to the places where the citizens would actually prefer it to go: back to the cops who help keep the citizens’ streets safe and free from more threat of theft and societal ill.

How do Police Auctions work? Confiscated property and goods typically sells for pennies on the dollar of actual value when police auction off the items they have confiscated in the process of arresting criminals. Cars, stereos, even houses get put for sale to the general public as long as they show up for the event. Most people have never or will never attend such an event but for those who do their thinking outside the box it’s an interesting way to purchase merchandise at a fraction of its value (and original cost) as long as you don’t mind “where it’s been” so to speak… A nice tidy little system which has now found a way to exact the ultimate irony: the work of criminals is actually funding the activities of cops who are engaged in putting an end to the activities of criminals. It’s almost perfect in its ironic symmetry. Police auctions make sure the cops are the ones getting the last laugh for sure.

Types of Agencies Who have Public Auctions of forfeited and seized property:

Police departments (Including Local Police, County Sheriff Departments, State Police, US Marshals), (USMS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration , DEA, and other government agencies and federal law enforcement agencies

Types of Government & Police Public Auctions of forfeited and seized property:

Government Auctions, Police Auctions, IRS Auctions, State Government Auctions, County Sheriff Auctions, U.S. Marshal Auctions, FBI Auctions, Government Surplus Auctions, US Customs Auctions

Types of Forfeited and Seized Property:

Seized cars, pre-owned trucks, SUV’s, abandoned vehicles, surplus vehicles, seized land and real estate, boats, electronic merchandise, seized houses, jewelry, unclaimed luxury items

Definitions:

Unclaimed Property: Money and other assets that are considered lost or abandoned after an owner cannot be located for a specific period of time.

Seized Property: Property which has been confiscated by a Federal agency, and whose care and handling will be the responsibility of the agency until final ownership is determined by the judicial process.

Forfeited Property: Property the Government has acquired ownership of through a summary process or court order pursuant to any law of the United States.

Surplus Property: Property in excess of the needs of an organization and not required for its foreseeable use. Surplus may be used or new, but it possesses some usefulness for the purpose it was intended or for some other purpose.

Abandoned Property: Property which has been abandoned.

If you have additional Police Auction ideas, comment, stories, or advice – please post comments and let everyone know.

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The Psychology behind those who Bomb: The act of war is in many ways an act of anger, rage, and discontentment, it could be personal or labeled spiritual. Either an act of revenge or a crusade for a God, the act of killing and destroying with a bombs has its basis in rage. Suicide bombers are normally drawn to kill themselves because of two reasons: religious motivation or national motivation. Often time the suicide bombers are completely brain washed by the people who want them to finish their tasks for them. Other common attributes of a Suicide Bombers are they lack social skills, commonly come from under classed families, and mentally weak.

Those who would act in the name of their God, religion or political group do with the same intense anger, however, it is usually not from such a personal level. Here the bomber believes at his core that he is helping his cause and or doing the will of his God. The religious teacher brainwashes the bombers to a point where they are thoughtless to anything around them, including their own family. In addition, these religious leaders tell the unfortunate bombers that they were “born to kill others”. It is also thought the suicide bomber in fact is only masking his anger, behind the preserved justification of his act.

Religious militant groups are responsible for almost all recent suicide attacks. These religious leaders usually seek out young men who are sympathetic to the religious cause. The young males are then usually segregated in small units. Then the small units are indoctrinated by exploiting them through either religious or military means. The militant leaders instill that self sacrifice is noble and the units mission is righteous and heroic. And finally, all of the members in the unit make a declaration to their goal at hand. After this group reinforcement, it is extremely difficult for an individual to psychologically leave the group or back out of the suicide bombing pact.

The suicide recruitment steps mentioned above are used in 99% of all suicide attacks from Japan kamikaze pilots to 9/11 hijackers. The psychologically pull on individuals in small groups is very powerful and proven to be ideal to create potential suicidal bombers. The power of the group lead by evil can cause unimaginable evil. It is not uncommon for suicidal bombers to have never broken a law in their life before their final act.

This is why it is important to understand bombers and the fact is, they are simple pawns who are lead to act in this manner.

If caught in war and acting on the behalf his country, the justification is still very real and very present and the under lying aggression that lives within the individual is projected through the act of protecting his country or nation. The need to express his personal explosive rage is honored when it is connected to the fight for freedom.

We as a people have a need to feel superior to others and when our past has left us vulnerable to the ways of others and the world, there are those who will remain victims and those who will seek revenge. The need to watch the suffering of others comes from a deep seeded hatred of the world around. Killing is the ultimate act of revenge. The desire to watch as the objects and people around explode in a bombing is a projection of the explosive anger within the individual. When bombers act from this personal level they are for the most part, acting alone. Though they may be associated with a group, it is unlikely that they are acting for the group. A need to satisfy their own hatred and feel the power of control over life itself is at the core of the action.

In all cases, it is the discontentment, and anger at the world around that is at the core of all violence. Education, future hope, and reduction of poverty in trouble areas could help to prevent future suicidal bombers. It is also important to remember generally, the actual bombers did not and could not have made the plan to blow themselves up. The bombers are lead by evil doers who have the formula to generate small units with a common goal of suicidal destruction.

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