Because politicians trust politicians to use it responsibly or failing that, to use it where necessary Left/right politicians will lean in the generally expect

Because politicians trust politicians to use it responsibly or failing that, to use it where necessary Left/right politicians will lean in the generally expected directions on what things they would stop with it and what ways they would responsibly use the proceeds, but reasonable people could be convinced that the only problem with civil asset forfeiture is that it doesn't protect the innocent from its consequences -- and that's not too far off the mark, but that it can be used without having to wait for its victims to have exhausted the appeals process to it at first is the cancer from which all its other ills originate