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This Week in Civil Forfeiture Outrages
Not for the first time, I came across so many accounts of civil forfeiture outrages this week that I couldn’t narrow them down to…
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Climate Change Alarmism: This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrages, Part 3
A fascinating story in the Huffington Post hits a CEI trifecta: abuse of government authority, climate change alarmism, and reckless spending of civil…
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The Philadelphia Steal Mill: This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrages, Part 2
The Institute for Justice has just published an extraordinary report on civil forfeiture. For many years, the City of Philadelphia ran what is…
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The Destruction of a Perfectly Good Corvette Convertible: This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrages, Part 1
A colleague suggested that CEI should start up a regular feature: Civil Forfeiture Outrage of the Week. That assignment is more challenging than one…
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How Civil Forfeiture Can Enable Public Officials’ Misuse of Funds
A fascinating story at Reason last week—about the misuse of money confiscated through civil forfeiture—illuminates the many kinds of corruption that the practice…
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People Have Few Protections Against Law Enforcement Civil Asset Forfeiture Practices
Imagine a world where police officers regularly confiscate property from civilians, based only on officers’ accusations of criminal conduct. Imagine that these allegations are…