Posted on 03/29/2017 8:02:15 PM PDT by Ken H
The Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than $4 billion in cash from people suspected of drug activity over the last decade, but $3.2 billion of those seizures were never connected to any criminal charges.
A report by the Justice Department Inspector General released Wednesday found that the DEA's gargantuan amount of cash seizures often didn't relate to any ongoing criminal investigations, and 82 percent of seizures it reviewed ended up being settled administratively—that is, without any judicial review—raising civil liberties concerns.
In total, the Inspector General reports the DEA seized $4.15 billion in cash since 2007, accounting for 80 percent of all Justice Department cash seizures. Those figures do not include other property, such as cars and electronics, which are favorite targets for seizure by law enforcement.
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One of the best reasons all day to NOT Build the Wall
Sig Heil
I think, you are crazy.
And people wonder why I support ending the WOD.
4 billion?
Trump should seize from the DEA for the wall. That will show Congress.
I may just be, I will say that I am more cynical than anyone I have ever met. Probably because I ave seen way too much in my life. But just watch and see how my blatant cynicism comes true in the long run.
Civil Asset Forfeiture. Jeff Sessions is a big fan of this. I have seen nothing that leads me to believe that this will get reined in by this administration.
So where is the dough?
one of the few things i have disagreed with this administration about
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In the same lock box as the Social Security fund and the monies set aside for the Wall....
That same wall that enough Dem Congressman and a bunch of D Senators including Obama, Biden, Clinton, Schumer & friends voted FOR
Too Late - BO’B used that green for incidental funds as he and his brood traipsed around the world. Roaming world wide sucks up funds biggly!
The thread previous to this one indicates money for the Wall will NOT be approved by Congress:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326339-white-house-signals-it-can-live-without-border-wall-funds
the war on drugs is a crime and should be ended
it only helps drug kingpins
Them’s not ‘bales’......them is ‘square groupers.’
Right. Let’s give free access to meth, heroin and cocaine to anyone who wants it. That will do wonders for our society.
the drug war has reduced drug addiction not one iota
the percentage of society that are drug addicts is exactly the same as it was before the drug war began 47 years ago.
all the drug war does is enrich drug lords & criminals
A DEA badge is a license to commit robbery.
Trump should seize from the DEA and give it back to the people it was stolen from.
Sadly, I suspect he will take the wrong side of this issue leaving me to once again remind myself that the only "Constitutional Conservative" running for president last year was Rand Paul.
And people in the prison business.
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