Posted on 12/24/2015 7:36:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Justice Department said this week it is putting off payments "for the time being" to local law enforcement agencies that participate in the federal asset forfeiture program.
The move comes after Congress recently took $1.2 billion from the department's asset forfeiture fund as part of budget maneuvering.
Under the program, the Justice Department permits local law enforcement to share proceeds of seized assets from investigations in which they participated. But significant cuts to the fund by Congress mean those "equitable sharing" payments are being put on hold. ...
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Absolute power....
Actually the asset forfeiture program is more the action of a government of thugs than any legitimage political entity. It has been grossly abused by local goons in law enforcement to seize the assets of citizens far beyond any legitimate compensation for offences of a trival nature. Perhaps these thugs will be less eager to do so in the future knowing the beneficiaries are the bigger thieves than they in Washington.
Kay Adams:But you're not like him Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a man like your father. That's what you told me.
Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any other powerful man, any man who is responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.
Kay Adams:You know how naive you sound?
Michael Corleone:Why?
Kay Adams: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.
Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
Well I guess there’s nothing left in social security to rob.
Asset forfeiture is a massive scam. Family court is an even bigger scam.
"Those thieves in Washington made off with the money we stole!"
Karma's a harsh mistress, ain't it?
IMHO, the whole thing was a scam..
“Pray they don’t change the deal any further”...
To the degree asset confiscation is sheer robbery itself, let Congress put the money to better use than creating militarized SWAT teams with the capability of machine gunning your dog on a wrong-address raid.
The local police may lose their incentive to do the dirty work.
Maybe the local LEOs won’t be so motivated to steal people’s stuff.
another great exchange from that movie.
And so true that it’s heartbreaking.
The Godfathers I and II opened my eyes to the harsh realities of human extremes.
My GF at the time said “he’s going to kill his brother”
I said NO ONE would ever kill their brother.
Wow.
...didn’t u know!!!???.....Democrats and RINOS, aka The Unity Party, have to pay for those free cell phones, free housing, free food stamps, free college loans, free healthcare and on and on endlessly............somehow, someway.
This is because even The Uni Party is FORCED to deal with no money in the ole checking account over and over and over throughout their tenure in our CORRUPT halls and balls of Congress!
Eventually, like Poland and Greece recently, Liberals just confiscate ALL YOUR money in YOUR savings and checking accounts and throw your ass out into the street.
In Missouri they passed a law that asset forfeiture money would go to the schools instead of being kept by LE. The fed stepped in and came up with a plan where the local LE would call in federal agents there when they made a bust. The feds would take control of the asset forfeiture and kick back part of it to local LE as "revenue sharing" and the schools got nothing.
we even have our own assassinated journalists now.
You say that like its a bad thing.
Good. Local jurisdictions have been using the federal seizure sharing program to end run the [long overdue and far too timid IMO] reforms in state asset forfeiture (which, since they’re state/county entities, they shouldn’t be able to do anyway). Hopefully this will remove the incentive to do that.
Yes, but some states have been reforming their programs, and the locals have been using this to get around that (which they shouldn’t have got away with anyway), so this is good.
This program has been a corrupting force in American policing.
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