Taken-Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with crimes can be stripped of

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1. He warned that millions of dollars raised by forfeiture “could very easily be lost". OMG.

“We all know the way things are right now—budgets are tight,” Steve Westbrook, the executive director of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas, says. “It’s definitely a valuable asset to law enforcement, for purchasing equipment and getting things you normally wouldn’t be able to get to fight crime.” Many officers contend that their departments would collapse if the practice were too heavily regulated, and that a valuable public-safety measure would be lost.

How is this not stealing? Outrageous.

More and more evidence certain Government agencies, local and Federal, are out of control