twoskinsonemanns
Regular Member
Scale back of civil asset forfeiture...wow. I never thought I'd see EH do anything not evil.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/16/eric-holder-orders-end-to-doj-program-th
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/16/eric-holder-orders-end-to-doj-program-th
Reason article[/QUOTE said:Big, huge news on the civil asset forfeiture front: Eric Holder is ordering an end to most of the Department of Justice’s Equitable Sharing Program. This is the program where the DOJ works with local law enforcement agencies for busts, and then the law enforcement agencies are permitted to keep 80 percent of the assets seized. It has been an incubator of the worst police abuses, as some agencies looked for any possible reason to take people’s property without ever actually accusing them with a crime. That difference between how the state and federal programs operate is important. The federal program is what encouraged the police abuse because the agencies got to keep the money (and cars, and whatever else they snatched). When the money goes into the general fund, not directly to the police, there goes the incentive for police to grab whatever they can get their hands on.