Assets Forfeitures Are Worth More than Burglaries
March 29, 2016
Who are the biggest crooks in America? Cops, not criminals. The federal government is resuming its “equitable-sharing” program that allows local cops to seize your assets even when you haven’t been convicted of a crime. It turns out that in 2014, federal authorities seized over $5 billion in assets. That is more than the amount of money taken in burglaries that year.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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