Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
<i>"The judge said, 'I can't give you back your car, because it would be right back on the road with drugs.' " (Karkula declined to comment for this story.)</i><p>This is why civil forfeiture should be banned.  I'm still of the opinion that any ticket money should be handed over to a superfund with strict rules on spending never to return to the police or judicial coffers.