Holder puts brakes on asset seizure!
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CarolKing
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A great thing happened. Thanks for sharing that @Gunky. A very nice read. Ever since 911 people's Civil Liberties have been trampled on. How about where John W. Thompson directors of the Nat'l Sheriffs Assc. Said, "there's wrongdoing in everything." No there's not.
The police and sheriff departments will need to go back to the old fashioned way in getting funding.
The police and sheriff departments will need to go back to the old fashioned way in getting funding.
cybrguy
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AG Holder tackles civil forfeiture
01/19/15 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
Attorney General Eric Holder already has a lengthy list of progressive accomplishments, but even as he eyes the exits at the Justice Department, he’s not done making important announcements. In fact, as the Washington Post reported, Holder’s news late Friday was one of the biggest of his tenure as A.G.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges.
Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.
At issue is something called “civil forfeiture” (or as some call it, “asset forfeiture”). It’s not exactly new – as Dara Lind noted last week, the practice “has been legal for a long time – during Prohibition, it was often used to seize bootleggers’ cars. But, like many other aggressive police tactics, it expanded radically during the 1980s with the rise of the war on drugs.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ag-holder-tackles-civil-forfeiture
AG Holder tackles civil forfeiture
01/19/15 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
Attorney General Eric Holder already has a lengthy list of progressive accomplishments, but even as he eyes the exits at the Justice Department, he’s not done making important announcements. In fact, as the Washington Post reported, Holder’s news late Friday was one of the biggest of his tenure as A.G.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges.
Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.
At issue is something called “civil forfeiture” (or as some call it, “asset forfeiture”). It’s not exactly new – as Dara Lind noted last week, the practice “has been legal for a long time – during Prohibition, it was often used to seize bootleggers’ cars. But, like many other aggressive police tactics, it expanded radically during the 1980s with the rise of the war on drugs.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ag-holder-tackles-civil-forfeiture
Jared
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"Holder's order applies only to "adoption," which happens when a state or local agency seizes property on its own and then asks the Justice Department to pursue forfeiture under federal law. "Over the last six years," the DOJ says in thepress release announcing Holder's new policy, "adoptions accounted for roughly three percent of the value of forfeitures in the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Program." By comparison, the program's reports to Congress indicate that "equitable sharing" payments to state and local agencies accounted for about 22 percent of total deposits during those six years. That means adoptions, which the DOJ says represented about 3 percent of deposits, accounted for less than 14 percent of equitable sharing. In other words, something like 86 percent of the loot that state and local law enforcement agencies receive through federal forfeitures will be unaffected by Holder's new policy."
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/19/how-the-press-exaggerated-holders-forfei
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/19/how-the-press-exaggerated-holders-forfei