[Rurudyne]

Civil Asset Forfeiture should be done away with. One of many things that violate people’s rights by pretending it’s being done to their property (like progressive taxation) that should all go away, really.

[pierrem15]

The whole corrupt mess of "civil asset forfeiture" came about in the early 80's when the Federal courts discovered that the procedural mess they had created in the 1960s by inventing rights and rules of procedure hitherto unknown in centuries of Anglo-American law meant that well-heeled drug distributors could hire enough criminal attorneys to tie up cases or get cases dismissed.

So rather than remove their catastrophic innovations and admit they had screwed up, SCOTUS decided to remove your ability to pay for an attorney and make it easier for the state to railroad defendants by allowing civil asset forfeiture.