[Crim]

Great...more LEO bashing.

/sarc

[I want the USA back]

This practice by “law enforcement “ is illegal. Giving it a nice name doesn’t make it legal. Passing laws to allow it doesn’t make it legal, since those laws are invalid.

[equaviator]

“”We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty. It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty.””

2+2=5

[lastchance]

Law enforcement agencies do not have a target on their backs. Civil forfeiture laws do. If an agency is using a bad law to persecute the innocent they deserve to be brought to task for it.

[Lizavetta]

Wasn’t Loretta Lynch a big player in this activity in New York? And I seem to remember it didn’t even come up in her confirmation hearings, not even by conservatives... who apparently want that swag too. They disgust me.

[Jack Hammer]

“Fourth Amendment - we don’t need no steenkin’ Fourth Amendment...”

[Yashcheritsiy]

Conservatives Are Going After Law Enforcement Revenue Generation Agencies In the Name of Property Rights

FIFY

[Wolfie]

So, where have they been at for the last 30 years?

[grumpygresh]

The Fed agencies dealing with drugs need to be disbanded. It’s the DEA that protects Mexican cartels and the CIA that protects the poppy crop in Afghanistan and then ships in the opium. The prison industrial complex benefits (BTW, the prison companies are big hitlery donors), the fed agents benefit with promotions and bribes. Big Dem PD no doubt still get a cut of the dough from the gangs.

Time to take away the Fed enforcement of drug laws. If states want drug laws they can look at the range from Singapore to Netherlands.

[GeronL]

Civil Asset Forfeiture where the person is not charged with anything, is a criminal act in my book.

It’s just like the Kelo decision except with eminent domain they have to pretend to pay you something.

[griswold3]

Due process!!!
Civil forfeiture is wrong!! Change the law!

[gibsosa]

Per one article I found, the agent in charge said he can’t comment as the investigation is still “ongoing”... IOW, still trying to find a way to keep his money....

[Demiurge2]

Part of this is anti-smurfing laws dealing with cash transactions under $10,000 - they literally make it illegal to do something in a way that’s not illegal.

[CedarDave]

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[zeugma]

"It's a civil liberties issue, it's a due process issue, but first and foremost, it's a property rights issue," Jason Pye, director of justice reform for FreedomWorks, said. "This is legal plunder. What they're doing is wrong, and we need to fix this... I've been surprised at how activists have embraced this issue."

Absolutely. The supporters of the war on drugs brought us this insane crap. It's reason enough all by itself to oppose the "war on drugs".

[ConservingFreedom]

police can and have abused well-intentioned laws

Maybe - or maybe police and prosecutors have acted within the language of laws whose alleged 'good intentions' were merely a con played on low-information voters of the left and the right.