[Vigilanteman]

The same motivation for employing an excess number of units to sit at the bottom of a hill with a radar gun: revenue.

[ansel12]

So the only way to discontinue or change asset forfeitures, is to legalize drugs.

The only way to restrain cops from killing dogs so casually is to legalize drugs.

The only way to improve the plea bargaining excesses, is to legalize drugs.

The way to change anything is to legalize drugs? Can’t we just make changes in laws and policing anymore, or do we have to wait until drugs are all legal?

[Flintlock]

Whaaadeya mean????

It’s called FREE STUFF—LEGALIZED THEFT!!!!

[zeugma]

If we can't get rid of asset forfeiture entirely, one thing that needs to happen is that the proceeds need to be disconnected from the agencies doing the siezure. Everything should go in to the general fund. You'll find the enthusiasm by enforcement agencies will quickly wane of that's the case. It will then be easier to get rid of it entirely. This is why delinkins is the most important part of any reform.

[drypowder]

there should be NO asset confiscation until and unless the person/suspect is first convicted of a crime that warrants forfeiture of their assets. One can count on the little tin god cops and the government to always abuse their authority (DUH) thus becoming criminals themselves. This kind of crime always produces victims and it needs to stop.
Restore and enforce our Constitution!! Oh darn, now I've done it. I've outed myself as a constitutionalist.

[I want the USA back]

To $h!t on the constitution, which statists hate.

[Billthedrill]

The question sort of answers itself. Asset forfeiture is free money, free automobiles, free whatever isn’t nailed down. In the U.S. it is most closely associated with the putative War On Drugs but it could have been anything - it’s how Goering ended up with all those paintings. It is so directly and obviously unconstitutional that I cannot imagine the sort of legal mental gymnastics that have tolerated it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Greed, greed and greed.

[Secret Agent Man]

mokita.

[MasterGunner01]

Greed, plain old Greed.