FOR AN EASY SOCIAL-JUSTICE WIN, END ASSET FORFEITURE

Civil asset forfeiture is a funding mechanism that undermines justice, corrupts and militarizes law enforcement, and worsens racial and economic inequalities. Designed to punish "kingpins," seizures in this state actually amounted only to $8,542 per bust, according to one study.You can still oppose the illicit market and want this mechanism gone.Filter

• Birthed in the 1980s, asset forfeiture allegedly was invented as a crime-fighting tool designed to strip financial assets from drug . . .
  

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