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

submitted 3 months ago by theHRguy to c/progressivepolitics

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

Tyrants recognized centuries ago that the surest way to guarantee the enthusiasm and loyalty of their mercenary thugs was to let them loot their victims.

And nothing really has changed since then.

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