Top 6 Craziest Things Cops Spent Forfeiture Money On

[phill4paul]

Some might call it "crazy." To others it is a job perk.



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[Travlyr]

Asset Forfeiture (http://ij.org/assetforfeiture)


IJ client Russ Caswell and his family have owned and operated the Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Mass., for two generations. The Caswells nearly had their property taken from them by local and federal law enforcement officials through a process known as “civil forfeiture."

Civil forfeiture—where the government can take and sell your property without ever charging you with a crime, let alone convicting you of one—is one of the greatest threats to property rights in the nation. To make matters worse, such forfeitures often fund law enforcement officials’ budgets, giving them a direct financial incentive to abuse this power. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies frequently fail to disclose what they seize or how they use forfeiture proceeds. This lack of accountability to state legislators and the public only makes a bad problem worse.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Has anyone contacted their officials to end this? local. county, state, and federal? You've got force your representative to draft legislation to end this robbery by state.
Asset Forfeiture (http://ij.org/assetforfeiture)