Nick Sibilla: This Federal Program Lets Cops Seize Cash, Evade State Laws And Keep Over A Billion Dollars

Police incentives 101.     John Yoder and Brad Cates, who headed the Asset Forfeiture Office at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1983 to 1989, slammed civil forfeiture as a “complete corruption” and “fundamentally at odds with our judicial system and notions of fairness,” in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Thanks to civil forfeiture    ... MORE