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Perhaps I've been the victim of hyperbole, but I've read and heard of numerous instances where asset seizure has been and is used to fund a significant portion
by pasbesoin 16y ago
Perhaps I've been the victim of hyperbole, but I've read and heard of numerous instances where asset seizure has been and is used to fund a significant portion of the seizing authority's budget.
If that doesn't have the potential for "conflict of interest" written all over it, I don't know what does.
- tptacek 16y agoYou realize of course that you're only going to hear about the asset forfeiture cases where the process is abused. The rest of the cases --- which vastly outnumber the abuses --- are boring. Moreover, virtually every abuse case I've read about has occurred on a local (sometimes even municipal) level. Have you read a lot about federal law enforcement abusing asset forfeiture procedures?