I don't understand why we are subjecting a practice that is objectionable on the grounds of violating property rights to "studies". It frankly doesn't matter if

I don't understand why we are subjecting a practice that is objectionable on the grounds of violating property rights to "studies". It frankly doesn't matter if the correlation is 1. Taking people's personal property when they have not even circumstantial suspicion of having done anything wrong other than having the property and putting the legal burden of proof on them to reclaim their ownership is frankly just as abusive as a medieval lord plucking whatever he likes, and not even half as honest.