yes yes!
civil asset forfeiture purports to authorize police and state agents to take (steal, in effect) private American citizens’ property ... (noting also that the victims of this terrible practice are almost always innocent under the law when the cops/agents steal their goodies, money, whatever)
this practice incentivizes honest police and any involved judiciary to become corrupt as Hell
we must end this awful practice now!
Jeff Sessions will be mighty unhappy.
There's more to it. Every day the Border Patrol and CBP seizes hundreds of vehicles used by drug and human smugglers.
Do we really want to just give their vehicles back. That will make their operational costs go way down.