A couple of weeks ago we talked about civil forfeiture, when - TopicsExpress



          

A couple of weeks ago we talked about civil forfeiture, when police can simply take and spend money and assets obtained while investigating a possible crime, sometimes even if no crime occurred. Turns out John Oliver did a recent segment on this. I have a complaint with the video, though, which is that it doesnt explore how intimately connected civil forfeiture laws are with the drug war-he makes them seem like just some goofy, clearly terrible remnant in our legal system, but actually they are a big part of the system of perverse incentives put in place in the 80s to finance the drug war. For more on that angle check out the New Jim Crow. https://youtube/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:11:05 +0000

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