Posted on 04/06/2018 2:56:32 PM PDT by tkocur
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed into law a forfeiture reform bill last week that will require law enforcement officials to obtain a criminal conviction before permanently taking a person's cash or property, making Wisconsin the 15th state to do so.
The law is intended to address the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, a common legal maneuver that allows police to seize and keep cash, real estate and other property from people suspected of criminal activity, regardless of whether those people are convicted.
Defenders of civil forfeiture, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, maintain that it's a valuable law enforcement tool that allows authorities to seize the ill-gotten gains of criminals who are difficult to apprehend and convict, such as the leaders of international drug cartels.
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“Hate to say it, but it was a Republican president, Ronald Regan, who first proposed this practiced and eventually signed the bill onto law. “
Along with the Brady bill and machine gun ban.
That happened under Clinton after Columbine. Regan was an NRA member. It took quite a few Republican votes in Congress to get it passed though.
It’s why I consider him an execrable excuse for a human being.
NOBODY who supports civil asset forfeiture without a CONVICTION is anything other than a traitor to the constitution and should be beaten severely before disenfranchisement and deportation.
I stand corrected but he supported it and Clinton’s assault weapon ban. He also signed onerous gun control law in CA.
I agree 100%.
Just a general heads up. If anyone of you ever pay bail for someone, even knowing they are innocent, they will see that the bail money is available for their greedy hands and get it. They will trump up huge crimes for the person and then talk them into a plea bargain. Who wouldn’t take the plea bargain rather then the threat of going to prison with a trumped up prosecution, as well as the cost of going to court? The next step is the confiscation of all the bail money you put up for the person to pay their large trumped up fine.
This happened to me because I thought people get their bail money posted back when the person shows up for court. I had no idea that it automatically went to pay their trumped up fine. The person I had helped didn’t have the money to pay me back. It’s all rigged to get that bail money. If it’s 2:00am, everyone is in a hurry to deal with the situation and get out of there, and they hand you many pages to read, beware, you are signing your bail money away to them.
Correct.
And this scheme has been going on since at least the 1950’s.
Hate to say it, but it was a Republican president, Ronald Regan, who first proposed this practiced and eventually signed the bill onto law.
Along with the Brady bill and machine gun ban.
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And the first illegal alien amnesty.
Nope.
If you are not one of their favored groups they are totally in favor of the government taking your stuff.
Heck they are in favor of common thieves taking your stuff.
What kind of car does the sheriff "lion" in Florida drive ?
Don’t overthink it - this is a good thing.
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