Civil Asset Forfeiture Perverts Policing

“The prosecution of justice should never be a way for law enforcement to generate revenue. Our criminal justice system is supposed to serve the people it protects; it can’t do that if it’s perversely incentivized to harass, intimidate and rob them for extra funding. Allowing civil asset forfeiture to be abused will do nothing but erode trust between law enforcement officers and the communities needing their service.

Lawmakers at the state level must act. We need more than just state laws that limit civil asset forfeiture; we need to either abolish civil asset forfeiture entirely, or roll back the permissive, unsupervised authorization to use the equitable sharing program to seize assets. “

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