Scott Shackford on Asset Forfeiture Run Wild

Reason Staff | 1.19.2014 2:00 PM

(Elijah Bosley)

Asset forfeiture laws give police officers an incentive to bust people with property to seize. But, writes Scott Shackford, few have taken this practice as far as the police of Sunrise, Florida, who posed as cocaine suppliers to lure targets into town.

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