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RE: Texas Police Collect More Than $50 Million In One Year Thanks To Civil Asset Forfeiture
the problem IS with the concept because it undermines what are supposed to be Constitutionally protected rights. Also, "crimes" without any victims, such as those which fall under 'drug crimes' shouldn't qualify as any crime at all and those individuals shouldn't have their property taken from them because of their frowned upon voluntary exchanges.
Whether to legalize drugs is an entirely different issue. I was speaking to forfeiture laws, not the bigger question of prohibition. Forfeiture laws are not just confined to drug cases. when a corrupt defense contractor bribes a general and a congressman and the three of them run off with several million dollars in the course of committing fraud, do you think society should be able to recover the ill-gotten gain? Otherwise they bank millions of dollars that is waiting for them when paroled. For the record, I do not agree with current drug laws either but that is a different conversation.