{"id":20088,"date":"2015-12-24T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20088"},"modified":"2015-12-24T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:30:55","slug":"wapo-the-justice-department-just-shut-down-a-huge-asset-forfeiture-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20088","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/23\/the-feds-just-shut-down-a-huge-program-that-lets-cops-take-your-stuff-and-keep-it\/\">The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program<\/a> by Christopher Ingraham: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Justice announced this week that it&#8217;s suspending a controversial program that allows local police departments to keep a large portion of assets seized from citizens under federal law and funnel it into their own coffers&#8230;the change may not be permanent. In its letter, the DOJ hints that it may be able to restart payments later: &#8216;By deferring equitable sharing payments now, we preserve our ability to resume equitable sharing payments at a later date should the budget picture improve.&#8217; The DOJ hopes to &#8216;reinstate sharing distributions as soon as practical and financially feasible,&#8217; the letter concludes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program by Christopher Ingraham: The Department of Justice announced this week that it&#8217;s suspending a controversial program that allows local police departments to keep a large portion of assets &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20089,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions\/20089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}