In the February 12, 2010,online issue of Police magazine, Joseph Petrocelli’s article “Asset Forfeiture – You can use criminals’ ill‑gotten gains to help fund your department’s war on crime,” gave law enforcement departments some useful (for them) tips about using…
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Even Law Enforcement Admits It’s Not About Fighting Crime – It Really Is All About the Money
Tagged with: Charles B. Frye, civil asset forfeiture, corruption, Joseph Petrocelli, Police Magazine, Texas
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Ilya Somin on Federalism and the War on Drugs
Volokh Conspirator Ilya Somin speaks Wednesday on federalism and the War on Drugs at Michigan Law School and Thomas Cooley Law School. Details here. If any readers are in the vicinity, Somin’s lectures might be a worthwhile destination, and one…
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Tagged with: federalism, Ilya Somin, Vokoh Conspiracy, War on Drugs
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Uncontrollable law enforcement agencies
In this Texas county, the county commissioners can’t prevent the DA from creating his own public (private) militia: Collin County District Attorney John Roach will get his gear. The county commissioners have given up their effort to stop Roach from…
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Tagged with: asset forfeiture, Collin County, feudal lords, fiefdoms, John Roach, overkill, SWAT, Texas
Posted in states
Posted in states
But what can I do? Recommendations for a city council
In May, after the video of the Kinloch SWAT raid broke on YouTube and went viral, I spoke before the Columbia, Missouri City Council, discussing the links between the emergence of civil asset forfeiture as an off-budget funding source for…
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Tagged with: city council, civil asset forfeiture, freedom, liberty, local control, self-determination
Posted in federal, states
Posted in federal, states
From Cato: The RaidMap
View Original Map and Database
Tagged with: aggregate, dynamic entry, paramilitary policing, SWAT, unintended consequences
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Posted in Drug War, federal, states
Jurisdiction matters: the difference between “in rem” and “in personam” proceedings
Both civil and criminal forfeiture proceedings are brought under a variety of frameworks. It is important to understand the differences between the frameworks, because they have important implications for how the forfeiture proceeding functions. Here I describe the jurisdictional component…
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What gun owners and attorneys need to know about gun forfeiture laws
Charles Frye sends me a copy of a brief from the Gun Owners Foundation titled “BATF Firearms Forfeiture Procedures and Policies: An Attorney Guide“. It contains a valuable analysis of the federal laws governing the forfeiture of guns and firearms,…
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Tagged with: BATF, civil asset forfeiture, forfeiture, Gun Owners Foundation, guns
Posted in federal
Posted in federal
Introducing Charles B. Frye
I wanted to take a moment and introduce Charles B. Frye, an attorney with the firm of Lindeman, Alvarado, and Frye in Houston, Texas. Charles specializes in the practice of civil forfeiture law in Texas, and will be joining us…
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A brief and incomplete survey of current civil forfeiture issues at the state level
We haven’t been posting a lot lately, but I did want to give an update on the things we are tracking at the time. You should already have the sense that abuses of civil forfeiture laws are a 50-state problem;…
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Tagged with: Arizona, California, civil asset forfeiture, Colorado, equitable sharing, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia
Posted in states, Uncategorized
Posted in states, Uncategorized
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