Civil Asset Forfeiture

Policy

For Philly, Forfeiture is a Lucrative Revenue Source

Just call it legalized theft

Reason Staff | 12.5.2012 9:24 PM

Policy

Roadside Cash Seizures Get Louisiana Court Approval

These are tough times and the cops have to make a buck, too

Reason Staff | 12.5.2012 8:20 PM

Civil Liberties

Court: 2008 Detroit Raid, Seizure of Cars Was Unconstitutional

Owners had to pay ransom to the police to retrieve their vehicles

Reason Staff | 12.5.2012 7:56 PM

Policy

Inside Philadelphia's Asset Forfeiture Racket

John Ross | 11.29.2012 10:59 AM

Policy

TX County To Return Some Funds Stolen From Motorists by Local Police

But Tenaha cops didn't record the details on many of the people they rolled

Reason Staff | 11.28.2012 3:48 PM

Policy

Drug Dealing and Legal Stealing

The feds try to take a family-owned motel because some of its guests behaved badly.

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Feds Seize Over $2 Million from Retired Air Force Colonel Accused of Selling Synthetic Pot

John Ross | 11.20.2012 4:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Want to Rob People for a Living? DHS Will Pay You $106k a Year to Be an "Asset Forfeiture Specialist"

Mike Riggs | 11.20.2012 11:02 AM

Policy

FL Town Ordered To Surrender Millions in Forfeiture Money

Not to private citizens, but to the feds, of course

Reason Staff | 11.2.2012 6:12 PM

Policy

Shelby County, Texas to Return Property Stolen from Innocent Motorists

John Ross | 11.2.2012 4:21 PM

Policy

Asset Forfeiture Abuse on Trial in Federal Court

Damon Root | 11.1.2012 11:28 AM

Civil Liberties

Small Florida Town's Police Force Big Abusers of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Justice Department now investigating

Reason Staff | 10.31.2012 1:32 PM

Policy

Feds Investigate Asset Forfeiture Slush Fund in Bal Harbour, Florida

John Ross | 10.29.2012 9:11 AM

Civil Liberties

Michigan Cops Used Asset Forfeiture Funds to Buy Drugs, Prostitutes, and a Tanning Salon

Mike Riggs | 10.15.2012 10:02 AM

Policy

Oakland Sues Eric Holder, Challenging Forfeiture of City-Licensed Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Jacob Sullum | 10.11.2012 3:44 PM

Culture

Your Government: Making Rock Concerts Illegal, One Grateful Dead Tribute Band at a Time

Jacob Sullum | 10.10.2012 2:21 PM

Civil Liberties

Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office Used Asset Forfeiture Funds to Buy Flat-Screen TVs, Segways, Training From Disney

Mike Riggs | 10.9.2012 4:23 PM

Civil Asset Forfeiture

Inspector General's New Asset Forfeiture Report Reveals DOJ Is Now Just Robbing Americans [UPDATED]

Mike Riggs | 9.28.2012 12:26 PM

Policy

Judge Halts Dinosaur Forfeiture

Prosecutors have not proven the bones were smuggled

Reason Staff | 9.10.2012 10:08 PM

Policy

Why Asset Forfeiture Abuse Is on the Rise

It's time to build a wall of separation between government power and the profit motive.

Steven Greenhut | 8.10.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

The Dangers of Asset Forfeiture

Damon Root | 8.8.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

Bill Would Stop the DOJ From Using Forfeiture to Shut Down Medical Marijuana Suppliers

Jacob Sullum | 8.3.2012 3:40 PM

War on Drugs

Drug Enforcement Administration Refuses to Pay Man for Ruining His Truck During an Undercover Drug Sting About Which He Wasn't Told

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.31.2012 5:32 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Asset Forfeiture Continues to Skyrocket Under Obama

Mike Riggs | 7.31.2012 1:34 PM

Policy

Why Not Let Cops Stop People for Unbuckled Seat Belts?

Jacob Sullum | 7.13.2012 3:50 AM

Politics

5 Most Unlibertarian Supreme Court Rulings Still Standing

Individual mandate doesn't even make the list!

Damon Root, Mike Riggs, Peter Suderman, and Tim Cavanaugh | 6.29.2012 5:10 PM

Policy

But Without Government, Who Would Steal Huge Amounts of Property and Ruin People's Lives for Absurd and Indefensible Reasons?

Brian Doherty | 6.14.2012 2:39 PM

Politics

Asset Forfeiture: "A Process of Government Enrichment That Often Is Indistinguishable from Robbery"

Damon Root | 5.21.2012 4:51 PM

Policy

Police Tell Woman to Pay Son's Bail in Cash, Then Steal it

Matt Welch | 5.21.2012 9:45 AM

Civil Liberties

Maine Cops to Ramp Up Asset Forfeiture Efforts

Mike Riggs | 4.24.2012 1:25 PM

Politics

Don't Call the Cops No. 359: Police Keep Suspiciously Large Tip

Brian Doherty | 4.4.2012 3:21 PM

Civil Liberties

Crooked New Orleans Cops Under Investigation for Theft and Extortion

Mike Riggs | 2.6.2012 1:15 PM

Policy

Tribal Police in Arizona Seize Cars of Medical Marijuana Patients

Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2012 12:33 PM

Politics

Property-Is-Theft Movement's Property Destroyed

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.5.2011 7:38 PM

Politics

'Welcome to the Upside-Down World of Civil Forfeiture'

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2011 4:22 PM

Civil Liberties

Forty Texas Cops Rob a Strip Club

Mike Riggs | 9.12.2011 12:28 PM

Policy

Mitch Daniels Vetoes Codification of Forfeiture Abuse

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2011 11:23 AM

Policy

Model Bill Would Revoke the State's License to Steal

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 3:17 PM

Policy

Riding in Cars with Mexicans

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.10.2011 3:47 PM

Policy

The Institute for Justice Takes Aim at Georgia Forfeiture Abuses

Radley Balko | 4.1.2011 1:13 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason.tv: Radley Balko on the 3 Worst Cases of Police Abuse in 2011

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 3.28.2011 12:24 PM

Policy

Policing for Profit

Radley Balko | 2.28.2011 10:39 AM

Policy

So How Is This Different From an Armed Robbery?

Radley Balko | 1.20.2011 4:16 PM

Policy

A Roundup of "Nut-Punch" Criminal Justice Stories

Radley Balko | 12.10.2010 12:27 PM

Policy

Another Forfeiture Crime

Brian Doherty | 12.10.2010 1:49 AM

Politics

Covering Their Assets

After being exposed for violating the state's forfeiture law, Indiana officials scramble to codify their abuses.

Radley Balko | 11.29.2010 12:00 PM