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The article hints that civil forfeiture may be the mechanism used here as well - if i had to pick a single policy to change in the USA it would be civil forfeit
by gefh 10y ago
The article hints that civil forfeiture may be the mechanism used here as well - if i had to pick a single policy to change in the USA it would be civil forfeiture. It just seems so glaringly unfair, surely both sides of the aisle could agree on this one
- stevenwoo 10y agoThe problem is police departments across the country use civil forfeiture to fund day to day activities and it's a policy that gets a candidate the support and endorsement of law enforcement at the municipal and state level. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-... The situation was depicted in the fictional TV show The Shield fifteen years ago but it turns out, the truth is not worse than the crazy stuff they told in those fictional stories.