[nathanbedford]

Regard this article as describing yet another casualty along the road in the war on drugs.

We continue to sacrifice our police departments to corruption, our Bill or rights to expediency, our sense of justice to our moral outrage. When will drugs simply be legalized?

[nikos1121]

Long time no see. Where have you been?

[Ken H]

Regard this article as describing yet another casualty along the road in the war on drugs.

Exactly. Been going on for too long.

President GWH Bush, March 05, 1991 =>

Asset forfeiture laws allow us to take the ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets and more prosecutors in court.

In the last 5 years alone, the Justice Department shared over half a billion dollars in forfeited assets with State and local law enforcement.

http://bush41library.tamu.edu/archives/public-papers/2764