SEIZURE LAWS

Thank you for your series on law enforcement officers circumventing the law
to divert money from education to their own agencies (5/21-22, A-1). When
the police have so little respect for the law, and when state and federal
legislators have so little respect for the Constitution, and when the
judiciary shows so little respect for righteousness, how can they be
surprised when so many of us citizens have no respect for authority?

My solution is for every board of education whose pupils have been robbed by
the police to bring a civil suit for embezzlement, personally naming every
officer involved as a defendant. That these officers were just following
orders is not a defense, it is a confession.

Joel S. Heller, Kansas City