Ending government’s civil asset forfeiture theft of property one state at a time w/ Dan Greenberg

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Every year the federal, state and local governments seize about $3 billion of property via a process known as civil asset forfeiture, a perverse incentive for law enforcement officials to engage in searches in the hopes of finding something valuable to seize, knowing that that it most likely will not be challenged and recovered.

Now, many states are taking action to finally end the practice, a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Dan Greenberg, “Five Myths of Civil Forfeiture,” reveals.

Five Myths of Civil Forfeiture:
https://cei.org/studies/five-myths-of-civil-forfeiture/

Report: Maine, New Mexico, Nebraska and North Carolina take bold steps to end civil asset forfeiture’s deprivation of property rights:
https://dailytorch.com/2022/04/report-maine-new-mexico-nebraska-and-north-carolina-take-bold-steps-to-end-civil-asset-forfeitures-deprivation-of-property-rights/

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