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> , that’s $10 per person that gets taken by police in civil forfeiture That's the "average civil forfeiture." No proceeding for civil forfeiture is for the a
by akira2501 3y ago
> , that’s $10 per person that gets taken by police in civil forfeiture
That's the "average civil forfeiture." No proceeding for civil forfeiture is for the average amount; though, it's often for quite a bit more, generally thousands of dollars.
This is an inappropriate way to understand the impact of this issue.
- highfrequency 3y agoSure, but it is useful to compare the scale of things. This is about 0.0005 of the money taken by the government in tax revenues, concentrated in situations where crime is suspected