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• turc1656 9y ago
  Civil Asset Forfeiture has nothing to do with Trump. This outright theft of money and other assets during traffic stops has been going on for years. It was originally enacted to help deal with gangs and drug dealers who tend not to use banks for obvious reasons. This would allow law enforcement to seize the cash, drugs, cars, etc. to help suppress their illegal operations by confiscating their capital and equipment/vehicles. It has since been perverted into the kind of travesty this article details. Personally, I don't even support Civil Asset Forfeiture on any level because it seems to violate every notion of property rights as well as some basic human rights that we supposedly believe here in America. EDIT: my reference to Trump was in regards to OP's reference, which has now been edited out.
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• dang 9y ago
  Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. If there's any kind of discussion we most don't want here, it must be that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html