Tag Archives: civil asset forfeiture

As local governments attempt to stop legal government theft of property, aka civil asset forfeiture, feds and cops alike won't have any of it.

Canadian County, OK — An Oklahoma sheriff issued a string of misleading statements on Monday while criticizing a bill that would reign in the state’s abuse of civil asset forfeiture. Canadian County Sheriff Randall R. Edwards suggested that there is no violation of constitutional rights when authorities seize cash and …

One of the boldest moves to date, against the police state, comes from New Mexico this week, as they force cops to stop stealing from the citizens.

Sgt. Dove was legally assaulting people with deadly weapons for years. But he's in trouble now that he did it without his uniform on.

Washington, D.C. – In what can be described as perhaps the most important shift in policing in a generation, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice’s “adoption program,” which allows state police agencies to use federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without …

“We just usually base it [asset forfeiture] on something nice that we’d like to have, that we can’t fit into the budget.” Police in America are quickly becoming a hardcore racket of ‘legalized’ thieves, and they aren’t afraid to admit it. It has gotten so bad that the Canadian government …