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The Amount of Police Civil Forfeiture is Now More than All Civilian Theft and Burglary Combined (medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

What exactly happens with things taken through civil forfeiture...? Like... Who gets it? Is it sold/auctioned? Who gets the money...?

[–] SolarTapestryofNoise@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The police department gets it. If you want your money back it's the seized money vs the state in a court, not you personally vs the state, the money itself vs the state.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

But like... What does the department do with it? Do they just give it to indevual cops? If it's money does it become part of their budget?

Also, the case is "your money" vs " the state"? How the fuck does that work? This shit is so confusing 😅

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

John Oliver did a great segment on civil forfeiture.

My god he looks so young in this video.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!!

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

John aged a bit like Obama.

Hope I do as well.

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