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Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

U.S. Police Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Theft & Burglary Combined

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U.S. Police Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Theft & Burglary Combined

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Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

From 2000 and 2019 Cops Seized $69 Billion From People, Most of Whom Were Not Even Charged with a Crime

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Holy shit that’s insane and unjustifiable
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  It’s illegal in the constitution. But at some point a supreme Court said it wasn’t. So.
  
  It definitely qualifies as “illegal seizure”.

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