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A fascinating story at Reason last week—about the misuse of money confiscated through civil forfeiture—illuminates the many kinds of corruption that the practice of forfeiture invites. The story breaks down a report from state auditors that shows how public officials in Georgia illegally spent millions of dollars. Civil forfeiture is the ultimate result of a […]
Not for the first time, I came across so many accounts of civil forfeiture outrages this week that I couldn’t narrow them down to just one or two. Here are three: 1. WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio station, recently produced an excellent overview of the civil forfeiture system in Massachusetts. The story begins with an […]
The Providence Journal’s Antonia Noori Farzan just published a great story (paywalled) about the Rhode Island town of Little Compton—the second-smallest town in the nation’s smallest state—and its receipt and use of civil forfeiture assets. The story begins in the 1980s, when a Little Compton patrol officer, Ron Coffey, stopped a driver for a minor […]
Here’s a fascinating story in the Arizona Republic about an appeals court hearing earlier this week. Reporter Perry Vandell’s account of that hearing isn’t so much informative as educational. His article provides several excellent lessons about the real world of civil forfeiture—in particular, the interactions of abstract legal principles on real people’s lives. Before Vandell’s […]
I wish it were harder to find forfeiture outrages to write about, but they keep popping up. This week, I focus on Massachusetts. Here’s a news story out of Holyoke, Massachusetts, that features Natasha Custodio, a victim of civil asset seizure. Her troubles began when she bailed out an acquaintance in criminal jeopardy, Arthur Estabrook, […]
There is a big difference between being accused of misconduct and a court finding of misconduct. Nonetheless, the recent accusations leveled against Nathan Johnson, the sheriff of Real County in south Texas, are jaw-dropping. According to investigators, Sheriff Johnson’s deputies have regularly been confiscating money from undocumented immigrants during traffic stops—even when those immigrants have […]
Last week, the Birmingham News published a scorching expose of police practices in the little town of Brookside, Alabama (population 1,253). Brookside has no traffic lights and one retail business—a Dollar General store. Over the last few years, business in this little town just north of Birmingham has been booming—if you count revenue from traffic […]
The New Hampshire state legislature’s House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety is considering a significant change to the Granite State’s forfeiture laws: a change from civil forfeiture to criminal forfeiture. Below is a snippet from my recent testimony that explains how this proposed change would make life better for property owners in New […]
The bandit is the scourge of the traveler. In less developed parts of the world, travelers risk encountering bandits even today. Sometimes the bandit claims that he’s in charge of the road that the traveler is on or that he’s licensed to collect a toll. Sometimes the bandit discards the pretense of legality and insists […]
A few months ago, I blogged about the curious case of a currency seizure at Dallas Love Field. In December, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) seized more than $100,000 in currency from a traveler journeying to Chicago, apparently after a drug-sniffing dog sensed the smell of marijuana from her suitcase. As I wrote then, there […]