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Michigan laws allow police to seize assets even when no criminal charges are filed. Study says Michigan is among the worst in protecting citizens from unlawful seizures by police. Police defend seizing homes%2C cash%2C cars%2C insist forfeitures help fight crime%2C stop drug trafficking. State%2C federal lawmakers introducing new bills to curb %22abusive%22 property seizures by […]
The California Senate considered a bill on Wednesday that would close a big loophole in the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws that currently permits state and local law enforcement to use federal statutes to go after property believed to be connected to illicit activity. A rarity in the states, California provides innocent property owners with […]
Civil asset forfeiture is a unique area of law in which the government charges specific property of being guilty of wrongdoing, rather than a person. Perhaps because the property is accused of wrongdoing, and not the person, governments often place lower standards of proof needed to forfeit the property. The procedures used by the federal […]
From coast to coast, states are tackling legislation that would protect property owners from abuses of a system that has become known as policing for profit. Some of the states have seen success with that strategy. But opponents of the tool known as civil asset forfeiture are also taking their battles to federal courtrooms. Last […]
Over the past several years, law enforcement officials have seized and kept more and more of people’s property — without ever needing to prove that these people were involved in any crime. Those were the findings of a new report by the Institute for Justice, which found that police have made greater use of federal […]
There’s been an increasing rise in reforming civil asset forfeiture laws around the country, with conservatives and libertarians (such as the Cato Institute) leading the cause in many cases. Civil asset forfeiture is the legal practice that allows law enforcement officials to seize private property and money that is suspected of aiding, or resulting from, […]
James Madison declared way back in 1792 that in America, “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort … [and] … to secure to every man whatever is his own.” That was then. Today, according to a new Institute for Justice (IJ) report titled, Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture, 2nd […]
The Obama administration rolls back one of its best policing reforms. By Dara Lind and German Lopez Updated Mar 28, 2016, 2:48pm EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHARE All sharing options For decades, the federal government has given local police […]
As the public gets more critical of police aggression and abuse in the US, some programs that have flown under the radar for decades are now garnering more scrutiny. One of those is a program that allows police to keep most of the property they seize from people they suspect used it in a crime […]
In 2012, Alda Gentile, her son and baby grandson were driving from Florida to New York when police stopped her. Gentile, who’d been working as a limo driver in New York, had wanted to scope out condos in Florida. She’d had taken more than $11,500 in cash with her in case they spotted something. But […]