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I have to ask on this issue: Who is in favor of civil asset forfeiture and what is their politics? When John Oliver airs an episode about it, and Breitbart pu
by RajT88 4y ago
I have to ask on this issue:
Who is in favor of civil asset forfeiture and what is their politics?
When John Oliver airs an episode about it, and Breitbart publishes an oped against it quoting Rand Paul, you can bank on the American public being against it.
- klyrs 4y agoThe justice system. The unelected police, who profit directly, and the unelected prosecutors and judges who have intimately friendly relationships with those police. When police get a whiff that action could be taken against this funding source, they threaten to drag the politicians as anti-police, threaten stop-work actions, etc. It isn't about what the people want. We live in a police state.
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoThe laws in the US are made by the legislature. If it was as widely opposed as some people believe, it would be done with. The problem is that law-and-order types are always going to side with law enforcement, especially when it concerns them having more power.
- giantg2 4y agoIt's probably that it doesn't affect most people personally so they don't care, or they have bigger priorities. The legislators don't see it as a big enough issue to act on since it won't win many political points for them.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoIt's one of those things where nobody will go on record supporting it in abstract but both sides will generally turn a blind eye to it being done to people they don't like.