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But that's just the $ value. Has the incidence of innocent people been growing with that number?
by supernova87a 3y ago
But that's just the $ value. Has the incidence of innocent people been growing with that number?
- woodruffw 3y agoAssuming it's covariant with per-seizure asset size and overall false prosecution rate, yes. To believe otherwise, you'd need to believe that the U.S. population has either grown 50x or that we're doing roughly 50x more (asset-connected) crime per capita, which doesn't seem very likely versus the late 1980s. (But again: this is a bad argument. People rightfully get mad about all kinds of terrible things that happen to one or two people at a time. They do that because they (1) can visualize it happening to them, and (2) have a sense of civic righteousness. We shouldn't need a mass violation of civil liberties to get fired up about wrongs, should we?)