The Institute for Justice’s report, “Policing for Profit” gets a nod in Conor Friedersdorf’s excellent Forbes piece, “The Shortcut to Serfdom“: – As the Institute for Justice documents: Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private…
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Civil asset forfeiture and the Shortcut to Serfdom
Tagged with: budgets, civil asset forfeiture, Conor Friedersdorf, democracy, Forbes, Institute for Justice, pensions
Posted in federal, Uncategorized
Posted in federal, Uncategorized
Movie/Panel discussion, AFR Benefit
This Wednesday we’ll be sponsoring a movie/panel discussion about Missouri’s asset forfeiture laws and the diversion of forfeiture money from Missouri’s school funds at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri. The event begins at 6pm and we’ll have discussion on…
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Landmark forfeiture ruling in New Mexico
Scott Sandlin at the Alberquerque Journal reports: A state District Court judge has ordered the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office to stop transferring seized cash to the federal government without following state procedures — a strategy that had made it easier…
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Op-ed on Missouri forfeitures
The Columbia Tribune published my op-ed on Missouri’s civil forfeiture problem on Sunday. Missouri is unique in that the forfeiture system is better documented than in most states, partially because of then State Auditor’s seminal audit on civil forfeitures in…
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