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DOJ Says It Will Stop Stealing Your Money–Shuts Down Asset Forfeiture [Picture, Video]
he Department of Justice announced this week that it’s suspending a controversial program that allows local police departments to keep a large portion of assets seized from citizens under federal law and funnel it into their own coffers.
Recent years have brought public scrutiny on a controversial law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture, which lets police seize and keep cash and property from people who are never convicted — and in many cases, even charged — with wrongdoing. But despite a growing public outcry spurred in part by news investigations and congressional hearings, a new report Tuesday from the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit civil-liberties law firm, finds that the past decade has seen a “meteoric, exponential increase” in the use of the practice.
Forfeiture; outright theft with no proof of crime; just take the property and run. DOJ is bad euf but the local yokels are totally out of control
