There may be a better term to use. Kleptocracy.<p>It&#x27;s also somewhat wrong for this purpose, but it&#x27;s less wrog. Traditionally the word has been associated with banana republics and politically unstable nations whose heads of state and ruling elite sell off national assets, rob their citizens and otherwise stripmine their entire countries, before fleeing.<p>In this case you have police turning into criminal gangs, protected by the justice system. And with civil forfeiture they are <i>literally</i> engaging in legalised highway robbery.