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Yes, sounds like congress defunded because of journalism and constituent feedback not Department of Justice ended the abusive program. Current HN title is more
by rubyfan 11y ago
Yes, sounds like congress defunded because of journalism and constituent feedback not Department of Justice ended the abusive program.
Current HN title is more accurate.
- dang 11y agoIf that's true, then it's odd that the article doesn't explain this. If anyone can suggest a more informative article, we can change the URL. Edit: The AP appears to frame the story more accurately: http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-24/us-postpones-payments-to-police-in-asset-forfeiture-program http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-24/us-p.... Should we use this instead? It's rather short.
- lim_nick 11y agoyeah this article pretty clearly states what I was trying to get across: "The Justice Department says it's not suspending or shutting down the program — just that it doesn't have the money to pay police departments right now."
- dang 11y agoOk, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/23/the-feds-just-shut-down-a-huge-program-that-lets-cops-take-your-stuff-and-keep-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/23/the-f..., and changed the title from 'Congress defunds DOJ Seized Asset sharing program' to that of this article.