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alcu reporting
Federal Judge Declares ‘Policing for Profit’ Unconstitutional
10:52 AM (2 minutes ago)
“innocent until proven guilty.” That’s the way it should be, at
least. When a person is accused of a crime, the burden of proof belongs
to the accuser. But what most people don’t realize is that police
routinely use a constitutionally dubious form of legal jiu-jitsu called
“civil asset forfeiture” to flip this basic principle of fairness on
its head. With civil asset forfeiture, police literally accuse your
stuff of a crime, and you as the owner have to prove that your stuff is
innocent.
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