Legislation that I Fully Endorse

[Champakian]

Rep. Justin Amash (L–Mich.) on Thursday introduced a bill to end civil asset forfeiture, which allows the government to take property from someone without ever charging them with a crime.

Law enforcement on the local, state, and federal levels can seize assets if they were thought to be used in connection with illegal activity. That's often based solely on suspicion, though. Many people never receive their items back, even if they were acquitted or never charged in the first place. Since 2000, state and local governments have robbed people of more than $68 billion.

Police often deposit those sums into slush funds for their departments.

What's more, the property seized doesn't necessarily have to have been used by the alleged criminal in question. Such was the case with Kevin McBride*, who had his Jeep taken by police in Tucson, Arizona, after his girlfriend allegedly used it to sell $25 worth of weed to an undercover cop.

Billy Binion, Reason.com

[He really should use a more grownup variant of his name. ]​

Contact your Congresscritter, I sure as heck will.



https://reason.com/2020/12/17/justin-amash-introduces-bill-to-end-civil-asset-forfeiture-nationwide/



* This is a case they have highlighted in the past.

 

[CornusKousa]

Never going anywhere.

(D)'s and (R)'s love their ability to take shit from people.....just because.

 

[Champakian]

Never going anywhere.

(D)'s and (R)'s love their ability to take shit from people.....just because.

Of this, I am painfully aware, but at the same time, I want people to know who is trying although he is leaving, he could have done this sooner, then again, maybe he did. I don't know.

 

[LLCox]

This is the BIG reason marijuana has been illegal for so long, asset forfeiture.