Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014

BurtW

legendary

Activity: 2646

Merit: 1138

All paid signature campaigns should be banned.

Some good news on this front:

Quote

The 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.

The “equitable-sharing” program gives police the option of prosecuting asset forfeiture cases under federal instead of state law. Federal forfeiture policies are more permissive than many state policies, allowing police to keep up to 80 percent of assets they seize – even if the people they took from are never charged with a crime.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/justice-department-ends-key-civil-forfeiture-program

http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/27/civil-asset-forfeiture-congress/

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/28/1464215/-In-big-news-Very-significant-part-of-the-civil-forfeiture-program-is-shutting-down?detail=email

toddtervy

sr. member

Activity: 420

Merit: 250

Maybe some foreign country will liberate americans, or an alliance of them.

countryfree

legendary

Activity: 3066

Merit: 1047

Your country may be your worst enemy

I never had any doubt about who was the biggest and meanest thief.

Note this only talks about registered seizures. Hey, if a cop arrests a drug dealer with a suitcase full of cash, it can happen that a stack of bills accidently falls down, just at the same time his handkerchief falls down. By total inadvertence, the cop puts his handkerchief back in his pocket without noticing he grabbed the cash at the same time. Those things happen, you know.

toddtervy

sr. member

Activity: 420

Merit: 250

Need a mass house cleaning, kill all the fuckups.

darkangel11

legendary

Activity: 2478

Merit: 1360

Don't let others control your BTC -> self custody

The government is the biggest thief of them all and although it gets caught red handed it always comes back on top.

BADecker

legendary

Activity: 3990

Merit: 1385

Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014

Quote

Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually. In 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 and was six times greater than the total for 1989. Then by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 billion for the year, making this 35% of the entire number of assets collected from 1989 to 2010 in a single year. According to the FBI, the total amount of goods stolen by criminals in 2014 burglary offenses suffered an estimated $3.9 billion in property losses. This means that the police are now taking more assets than the criminals.

The police have been violating the laws to confiscate assets all over the country. A scathing report on California warns of pervasive abuse by police to rob the people without proving that any crime occurred. Even Eric Holder came out in January suggesting reform because of the widespread abuse of the civil asset forfeiture laws by police.

Bloomberg News has reported now that Stop-and-Seize authority is turning the Police Into Self-Funding Gangs. They are simply confiscating money all under the abuse of this civil asset forfeiture where they do not have to prove you did anything.

Topic: Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014 (Read 421 times)