“The nonprofit Institute for Justice has just released the 3rd edition of its Policing For Profit report, examining the abuses of civil asset forfeiture by local police across the United States. According to their data, local police departments have seized more than $68 billion dollars worth of personal property without due process over the last 20 years. In fact, since 2014, police have been stealing more than actual burglars—and most of that came from people who hadn’t been convicted of a crime.”
Anecdotally, not a single day goes by where you don’t have stories of people who just get their stuff jacked for being “suspicious” or whatever, and even if you never get officially charged with anything, they don’t give your stuff back.
“The nonprofit Institute for Justice has just released the 3rd edition of its Policing For Profit report, examining the abuses of civil asset forfeiture by local police across the United States. According to their data, local police departments have seized more than $68 billion dollars worth of personal property without due process over the last 20 years. In fact, since 2014, police have been stealing more than actual burglars—and most of that came from people who hadn’t been convicted of a crime.”
Anecdotally, not a single day goes by where you don’t have stories of people who just get their stuff jacked for being “suspicious” or whatever, and even if you never get officially charged with anything, they don’t give your stuff back.
Fascinating