Jeff Sessions Seeking to Increase Police Seizures/Civil Forfeitures.

MattinBama · Jul 18, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rom-american-citizens/?utm_term=.093f479dbbab

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.

“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."

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.

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.

Thanks Jeff, keep on being an embarrassment to this state.

92tide · Jul 18, 2017

MattinBama said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rom-american-citizens/?utm_term=.093f479dbbab

Thanks Jeff, keep on being an embarrassment to this state.

blessed are the cash takers.

jthomas666 · Jul 18, 2017

MattinBama said:
Thanks Jeff, keep on being an embarrassment to this state.

In his defense, embarrassing us is one of the few things he's good at.

MattinBama · Jul 18, 2017

jthomas666 said:
In his defense, embarrassing us is one of the few things he's good at.

Displaced Bama Fan · Jul 18, 2017

Geez, Jeff, wth? Also, he wants to outlaw weed and overturn the states that passed laws legalizing it. What a maroon.

What's next? Oral sex? Mini-skirts? Man buns? (I'm actually ok outlawing man buns

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Bodhisattva · Jul 18, 2017

Wow, who knew big government could turn stupid and abusive. Never saw that coming.

Jon · Jul 18, 2017

Bodhisattva said:
Wow, who knew big government could turn stupid and abusive. Never saw that coming.

funny that the "Bigger Government Party" tried like mad to curtail this behavior as much as possible

AlexanderFan · Jul 18, 2017

Won't be long

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mrusso · Jul 18, 2017

MattinBama said:
Thanks Jeff, keep on being an embarrassment to this state.

Hopefully we can continue this ritual with the election of Roy Moore to Session's seat.

crimsonaudio · Jul 18, 2017

Good grief, I detest that clown.

Tidewater · Jul 18, 2017

A step in the wrong direction.
I get the whole "law and order" thing, but the dodge of "We're not accusing the individual of anything. We're accusing that pile of money he was carrying and piles of money have no due process rights," is completely unsatisfactory. If the Crown had tried to make that argument in 1775, the colonists would have reached for their guns. Oh, wait...

jthomas666 · Jul 18, 2017

mrusso said:
Hopefully we can continue this ritual with the election of Roy Moore to Session's seat.

Moore doesn't really need elected office to be an embarrassment.

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uafanataum · Jul 18, 2017

Jon said:
funny that the "Bigger Government Party" tried like mad to curtail this behavior as much as possible

Both parties are the big government party. They just focus on intruding in your life in different ways.

Jon · Jul 18, 2017

uafanataum said:
Both parties are the big government party. They just focus on intruding in your life in different ways.

full agreement, one is more conventionally associated with big government however. Neither appreciate freedom fully

crimsonaudio · Jul 18, 2017

AlexanderFan said:
Won't be long

I tell you what, these DC clowns (and I mean virtually every government official in DC) keep this crap up and they won't like the result. We'll only take so much, and this 'asset forfeiture' crap is one step too far. Go ahead, Sessions, keep pushing this crap and we'll see what happens.

Both parties have continued to infringe upon everyone's personal freedoms for as long as I've been alive (and much longer than that) - they just throw us a bone every now and then to make us feel like they're on our side. They're not.

I've felt for a long time things would spin out of control in this country at some point, and if they keep piling up these sorts of abuses, it will happen. And the noose will be the right thing for people abusing the citizens.

cuda.1973 · Jul 18, 2017

This initiative isn't playing well, on the sites a lot of you detest. Even on TrumpBart, it is getting trashed.

NationalTitles18 · Jul 18, 2017

uafanataum said:
Both parties are the big government party. They just focus on intruding in your life in different ways.

Bingo.

Crimson1967 · Jul 18, 2017

Sad to say, but I'm voting for Mo "I'm reading the KJV until the wall is built" Brooks in the primary. Anything to get crooked Luther and Roy Moore away from the seat.

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CrimsonProf · Jul 18, 2017

Not a lot of defenses in this among the conservative press - shows where at least one of the fault lines exists between policy world and politicos.

MattinBama · Jul 18, 2017

cuda.1973 said:
This initiative isn't playing well, on the sites a lot of you detest. Even on TrumpBart, it is getting trashed.

I'm not that surprised. In most places I've seen this thing is not remotely popular on either side of the fence. Which of course is why Granny Sessions is trying to push it - same as marijuana stuff. He's trying to be Barney Fife sixty years behind the times.

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