http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/16/1358221/-Amazing-Holder-Ends-An-Asset-Seizure-Program?detail=email
I am impressed.
Attorney General Holder today announced he was ending the Federal Government's "Equitable Sharing" program, otherwise known as civil forfeiture. Under this program
... local and state police routinely pulled over drivers for minor traffic infractions, pressed them to agree to warrantless searches and seized large amounts of cash without evidence of wrongdoing. The law allows such seizures and forces the owners to prove their property was legally acquired in order to get it back.
Police spent the seizure proceeds with little oversight, in some cases buying luxury cars, high-powered weapons and military-grade gear such as armored cars, according to an analysis of Justice Department data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
some might remember i referred to police becoming more like gestapo well isn't this very similar to what they did to Jewish people during WWII? i too am impressed with Mr. Holder's move i would like to see him follow the lead of Pres. and get some civil rights that were wronged right starting with all the unresolved murders of Black men kids to teens to grown, i would say murders of all races but that doesn't seem to be the facts do they?
The whole concept should never have existed; the laws enabling civil forfeiture should have been ruled unconstitutional under any plausible interpretation of the Constitution and due process. But no, the Supreme Court upheld them.
A Justice official... said Holder "also believes that the new policy will eliminate any possibility that the adoption process might unintentionally incentivize unnecessary stops and seizures."
another thing the right wing let's stand and the scotus allows them to to do it, they run all over talking about Pres. violating the constitution guess it's true he who knows none suspects none, he who does is just as guilty and a hypocrite.
