Another Forfeiture Crime

Cops in Aurora, Illinois, steal $190,000 in cash (family life savings) from a pair of totally cooperative home remodeling brothers; the brothers are charged with no crime; a judge orders the cops to give the money back; the cops refuse, and probably don't even have it anymore, apparently having had it taken from them by the Department of Homeland Security. Story at Chicago Breaking News.

Radley Balko's great Reason magazine feature on forfeiture from our February 2010 issue.