“He pushed through the seizure laws. So if police suspect property is drug related it can be seized without court action. The owner must prove their innocence.”
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Thanks for the info———and this is outrageous.
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Do a search on “drug seizure laws” and do some reading. This stuff is happening everywhere.
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://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2764&year=1991&month=3