Justice Department Bizarrely Uses Madoff to Defend Taking People's Stuff Without Convicting Them First
Twisted incentives? What are those? Rod Rosenstein doesn't seem to have heard of them.
Twisted incentives? What are those? Rod Rosenstein doesn't seem to have heard of them.
The House passed amendments this fall blocking Jeff Sessions' asset forfeiture directive. Now senators want to make it stick.
In the 5th Circuit, it's shaping up to be Trump vs. Trump's judicial picks.
Gerardo Serrano still has not been compensated for the expenses imposed by the seizure.
"The police just fucked my life."
The database cost $25 million.
"They did it for money, and they destroyed a good and honest man."
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
Two investigations published this week reveal how police and prosecutors spend asset forfeiture funds outside the public eye.
Matt Welch interviews the libertarian-leaning legislators, as well as Emily Yoffe and Eli Lake, on Channel 121
A new lawsuit argues that owners of vehicles seized at the border have a constitutional right to prompt hearings.
In a rebuke to Jeff Sessions, the House of Representatives approved several bipartisan amendments to block his asset forfeiture directive.
Watch a Berkeley officer seize the cash out of the wallet of a street merchant.
Justice Department watchdog to cops: Your banquets don't count as "police activity."
When law enforcement agencies make money by seizing property, due process vanishes.
Violations of the Fourth and 15th Amendment, judge says
Data obtained by a Nevada think tank show where Las Vegas police use civil asset forfeiture.
On asset forfeiture, prison sentences, and police oversight, Trump's beleaguered attorney general is rolling back decades of progress.
The libertarian congressman says the internet is poised to destroy politics as we know it.
The attorney general is an unreformed drug warrior and sinister elf.
To settle a lawsuit, Philadelphia lawyers ask a judge to ban the city from funding law enforcement budgets with asset forfeiture revenue.
The attorney general revives a program that invites law enforcement agencies to evade state limits on asset forfeiture.
The attorney general is bad on most things that matter, and many that do not.
Cops plant evidence to meet quotas, compete, and settle scores. Eased asset forfeiture with little oversight would just bribe them to do more damage.
Listen to Sirius XM Insight channel 121 for discussion on civil asset forfeiture, Steve Bannon, John McCain, Dunkirk, and New York's grotesque subway
Could the contrast have something to do with his boss's policy preferences?
Asset forfeiture has "led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses," Thomas writes.
The new directive also includes some safeguards for property owners, but civil liberties groups say they don't go far enough.
"No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime," Sessions says of law that lets police take cash without charging anyone with a crime.
Are cops targeting drug kingpins or running roughshod over property rights?
But keep an eye out for a federal loophole.
This is your war on drugs...on drugs.
State's Attorney urges governor to sign the bill after Reason story shows poor hit hardest by asset forfeiture in Chicago.
Asset forfeiture "has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses."
Tepid asset forfeiture reforms don't include conviction before they can take your valuables.
Governor signs bill requiring police to report seizures and making it harder for cops to bypass state rules.
Here's a map of 23,000 times over the past five years that police in Cook County seized property and cash.
Konni Burton has emerged as the state's fiercest opponent of civil asset forfeiture.
A 72-year-old grandma's house was seized by police over $140 of pot. Not so fast, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says.
"I can't help but think this is vindictive prosecution."
The San Diego D.A. seized this family's bank accounts, accused them of money laundering, and kept their cash for 15 months without charging them with a crime.
This will encourage even more attempts to seize people's money and property.