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

submitted 1 month ago by theHRguy to c/progressivepolitics

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[–] SolarTapestryofNoise 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Goes into the budget is my understanding. It becomes departmental funds.

Very very poorly for the individual because your intent cannot be factored into the case. The money itself has to be proven innocent from criminal activity. It's essentially designed to be as hard as possible for the individual to get their money back. I am not a lawyer and I am pulling this from memory so i could be wildly off base with this.

[–] hibsen 4 points 1 month ago

If Wikipedia is accurate, it varies a bit by state, but it seems like your memory is accurate for many of them.