Seizures of cash and property to increase under Trump

Nomad

Nomad

Every trumper is a N4T.
So this is what you stupid, right-wing idiots voted for.

Is this your idea of getting government off your backs, Trumptards?

Jeff Sessions wants police to take more cash from American citizens

By Christopher Ingraham July 17 at 3:32 PM

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday said he'd be issuing a new directive this week aimed at increasing police seizures of cash and property.

“We hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture — especially for drug traffickers,” Sessions said in his prepared remarks for a speech to the National District Attorney's Association in Minneapolis. "With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures. No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime. Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate as is sharing with our partners."

Asset forfeiture is a disputed practice that allows law enforcement officials to permanently take money and goods from individuals suspected of crime. There is little disagreement among lawmakers, authorities and criminal justice reformers that “no criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime.” But in many cases, neither a criminal conviction nor even a criminal charge is necessary — under forfeiture laws in most states and at the federal level, mere suspicion of wrongdoing is enough to allow police to seize items permanently.

Additionally, many states allow law enforcement agencies to keep cash that they seize, creating what critics characterize as a profit motive. The practice is widespread: in 2014, federal law enforcement officers took more property from citizens than burglars did. State and local authorities seized untold millions more.

Since 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration alone has taken more than $3 billion in cash from people not charged with any crime, according to the Justice Department's Inspector General.

The practice is ripe for abuse. In one case in 2016, Oklahoma police seized $53,000 owned by a Christian band, an orphanage and a church after stopping a man on a highway for a broken taillight. A few years earlier, a Michigan drug task force raided the home of a self-described “soccer mom,” suspecting she was not in compliance with the state's medical marijuana law. They proceeded to take “every belonging” from the family, including tools, a bicycle and her daughter's birthday money.

In recent years, states have begun to clamp down on the practice.

“Thirteen states now allow forfeiture only in cases where there's been a criminal conviction,” said Robert Everett Johnson, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that represents forfeiture defendants.

In 2015, Eric Holder's Justice Department issued a memo sharply curtailing a particular type of forfeiture practice that allowed local police to share part of their forfeiture proceeds with federal authorities. Known as “adoptive” forfeiture, it allowed state and local authorities to sidestep sometimes stricter state laws, processing forfeiture cases under the more permissive federal statute.

These types of forfeitures amounted to a small total of assets seized by federal authorities, so the overall impact on forfeiture practices was relatively muted. Still, criminal justice reform groups on the left and the right cheered the move as a signal that the Obama administration was serious about curtailing forfeiture abuses.

In his speech Monday, Attorney General Sessions appeared to specifically call out adoptive forfeitures as an area for potential expansion. “Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate,” he said, “as is sharing with our partners.”

“This is a federalism issue,” Johnson said. “Any return to federal adoptive forfeitures would “circumvent limitations on civil forfeiture that are imposed by state legislatures … the Department of Justice is saying 'we're going to help state and local law enforcement to get around those reforms.'”

The Department of Justice did not return a request for comment.
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Just another shit sandwich served up courtesy of Idiots For Trump.
 
“We hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture — especially for drug traffickers,” Sessions said in his prepared remarks for a speech to the National District Attorney's Association in Minneapolis. "With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures. No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime. Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate as is sharing with our partners."
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OK, so that's all he said? I'm all for it IF​ the policy is like in the 13 states that require a criminal conviction (I note that wasn't in bold). Who's to say if Sessions will do that or not. You're making assumptions.
 
In his speech Monday, Attorney General Sessions appeared to specifically call out adoptive forfeitures as an area for potential expansion. “Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate,” he said, “as is sharing with our partners.”

“This is a federalism issue,” Johnson said. “Any return to federal adoptive forfeitures would “circumvent limitations on civil forfeiture that are imposed by state legislatures … the Department of Justice is saying 'we're going to help state and local law enforcement to get around those reforms.'”
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this is specifically for those states that limited their police forces forfeiture programs. the feds are going to step in and take the money instead of locals, while locals will still get their 'fair' share.

the war on americans.
 
Pappy Jones said:
OK, so that's all he said? I'm all for it IF​ the policy is like in the 13 states that require a criminal conviction (I note that wasn't in bold). Who's to say if Sessions will do that or not. You're making assumptions.
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Sessions himself said so.
Adoptive seizure is away around the state or local laws.
Read the article again.
 
Nomad said:
So this is what you stupid, right-wing idiots voted for.

Is this your idea of getting government off your backs, Trumptards?



Just another shit sandwich served up courtesy of Idiots For Trump.
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Shut the fuck up, you stupid coddler. He's going after the shitbags.

Go fertilize your trees. ;)
 
Pappy Jones said:
OK, so that's all he said? I'm all for it IF​ the policy is like in the 13 states that require a criminal conviction (I note that wasn't in bold). Who's to say if Sessions will do that or not. You're making assumptions.
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Asset forfeitures don't. They don't even require a criminal charge.
 
Granule said:
Shut the fuck up, you stupid coddler. He's going after the shitbags.

Go fertilize your trees. ;)
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So you call these people....

In one case in 2016, Oklahoma police seized $53,000 owned by a Christian band, an orphanage and a church after stopping a man on a highway for a broken taillight. A few years earlier, a Michigan drug task force raided the home of a self-described “soccer mom,” suspecting she was not in compliance with the state's medical marijuana law. They proceeded to take “every belonging” from the family, including tools, a bicycle and her daughter's birthday money.
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....shitbags?

You hollow headed Trump jizz gulping redneck turd.

Eat shit and die.
 
domer76 said:
The quotes from Sessions are inaccurate?
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The characterization of them is. In his speech, Session said this and only this about the the issue raised in the OP title " Jeff Sessions wants police to take more cash from American citizens":

In addition, we hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture—especially for drug traffickers. With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures. No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime. Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate as is sharing with our partners.
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That's not quite accurate. The OP basically substituted the word "criminal" with "citizens". Wouldn't you agree?
 
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