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Jeff Sessions Wants Police to Take More Cash from American Citizens

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(all bolding mine)

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.

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.

“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."

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.
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I find this last bolded statement startling!

Despite the seemingly hyperbolic article title, I chose this particular article from among many because it goes into depth explaining how the Trump administration is promoting "adoptive forfeiture", in response to the growing number of states that are enacting state legislation which holds state & local law enforcement to higher forfeiture standards than the federal standards.

During the Obama administration, Eric Holder issued a directive in January of 2015 essentially ending these types of seizures, in response to growing complaints by some state legislatures that the "adoptive forfeitures" circumvent state law.

“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.
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Now the Trump administration is issuing a directive to increase these very types of seizures:

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.”
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Also from the article, some commentary from an (anti-seizure) attorney:

“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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Source Article: WaPo: Jeff Sessions Wants Police to Take More Cash from American Citizens

Mirror: Independent UK: Jeff Sessions Wants Police to Take More Cash from American Citizens
 
A police-state cleptocracy contiues to prey upon people who have no feasible legal recourse. This is institutionalised theft with the thin veneer of legal legitimacy. If the state is willing to throw the rule of law and its own constitution out for the sake of money then it's time to break the back of the state and run these criminals out of power by political means. Revolution by ballot must happen or revolution by bullet will surely follow. Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Golly gee, an authoritarian attorney general wants to make our country more authoritarian. How lovely.
 
Put them in prison for life and take all their stuff.

I approve.

Won't hurt those of us who obey the law.

Thugs won't like it.

Too bad. Boo hoo hoo hooligan.
 


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Vox said:
Put them in prison for life and take all their stuff.

I approve.

Won't hurt those of us who obey the law.

Thugs won't like it.

Too bad. Boo hoo hoo hooligan.
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However, you realize the guy in jail could be you, right?

No need to find you guilty in a court of law, or to even find drugs on you. The mere presence of personal cash may be enough to have it and your possessions confiscated.

Are you signing-off on this?
 
Vox said:
Put them in prison for life and take all their stuff.

I approve.

Won't hurt those of us who obey the law.

Thugs won't like it.

Too bad. Boo hoo hoo hooligan.
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You never did say how selling drugs makes someone a thug.

You also realize that the law he is talking about doesn't care if you're convicted, right?
 
Sessions is nothing but a Nazi bigot, period ................. he would steal Heaven from Jesus & Hell from Satan if he only had the power to do so ...........

those ****s from Alibami are some real ass mutha****as .............
 
A nice piece put out by John Oliver a while back.

 
Evilroddy said:
A police-state cleptocracy contiues to prey upon people who have no feasible legal recourse. This is institutionalised theft with the thin veneer of legal legitimacy. If the state is willing to throw the rule of law and its own constitution out for the sake of money then it's time to break the back of the state and run these criminals out of power by political means. Revolution by ballot must happen or revolution by bullet will surely follow. Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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drones would likely be a better option ................
 
Chomsky said:
However, you realize the guy in jail could be you, right?

No need to find you guilty in a court of law, or to even find drugs on you. The mere presence of personal cash may be enough to have it and your possessions confiscated.

Are you signing-off on this?
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I obey the law.

Thus I fear no cop.

Sock it to the thugs.......please.
 
Vox said:
I obey the law.

Thus I fear no cop.

Sock it to the thugs.......please.
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This issue is about taking property and money from law abiding citizens just because a cop thinks they might be doing something wrong.
 
Vox said:
Put them in prison for life and take all their stuff.

I approve.

Won't hurt those of us who obey the law.

Thugs won't like it.

Too bad. Boo hoo hoo hooligan.
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Will you then approve of taking your house for speeding? I mean you're breaking the law and all right?
 
azgreg said:
This issue is about taking property and money from law abiding citizens just because a cop thinks they might be doing something wrong.
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If a cop thinks they're criminals I'd say nail them. Cops usually know. Criminals usually say, "I dindu nuffin."
 
Praxas said:
Will you then approve of taking your house for speeding? I mean you're breaking the law and all right?
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He would change his mind when a house guest stays over with a joint in his luggage and the police takes everything of his
 
azgreg said:
This issue is about taking property and money from law abiding citizens just because a cop thinks they might be doing something wrong.
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under the current administration the nation is likely to go full ****ing rogue ass ****ing Nazi, circa ****ing 1930s Germany ..................
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
He would change his mind when a house guest stays over with a joint in his luggage and the police takes everything of his
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I don't allow house guests that use drugs.
 
Vox said:
If a cop thinks they're criminals I'd say nail them. Cops usually know. Criminals usually say, "I dindu nuffin."
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Why do you hate the Constitution?
 
Vox said:
If a cop thinks they're criminals I'd say nail them. Cops usually know. Criminals usually say, "I dindu nuffin."
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Good Lord. Is there anything you won't defend the police for?
 
You coddlers of criminals really do make me laugh.

:mrgreen:
 
Vox said:
Put them in prison for life and take all their stuff.

I approve.

Won't hurt those of us who obey the law.

Thugs won't like it.

Too bad. Boo hoo hoo hooligan.
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Don't even have to be arrested or convicted.

"I think vox is a drug dealer."

"Take all his stuff."
 
Vox said:
You coddlers of criminals really do make me laugh.

:mrgreen:
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Thanks for demonstrating you don't have a clue.....again.
 
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