Forfeiture Changes coming for Law Enforcement Agencies
February 11th, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda
Under current law, police can seize your property, including cash, without charging you with a crime if they think you are suspicious. the forfeitures have raised eyebrows for years, but lawmakers are on the verge of requiring that law enforcement must charge you with a crime before taking your property and they can’t keep it premaritally unless you are convicted.Attorney Justin Pearson of the Institute for Justice says it is often cheaper to let police keep a portion of the property than to fight the seizure in court,.
They don;’t necessarily accuse the owner of anything. The premise is that its suspicious, so just the mere fact that for someone to do something that police view as out of the ordinary allows the police to take that money or property and keep it and force the owner to suet get it back, even though that law suit might cost more than the property is worth.”
The change is opposed by most police agencies and prosecutors.
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