{"id":38326,"date":"2019-06-27T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38326"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:31:47","slug":"techdirt-data-from-court-documents-shows-texas-law-enforcement-playing-small-ball-forfeiture-not-doing-much-to-stop-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38326","title":{"rendered":"TechDirt: Data From Court Documents Shows Texas Law Enforcement Playing Small-Ball Forfeiture, Not Doing Much To Stop Drug Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20190623\/15494942459\/data-court-documents-shows-texas-law-enforcement-playing-small-ball-forfeiture-not-doing-much-to-stop-drug-trafficking.shtml\">Data From Court Documents Shows Texas Law Enforcement Playing Small-Ball Forfeiture, Not Doing Much To Stop Drug Trafficking<\/a> by Tim Cushing: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Small seizures work out best for law enforcement. The cost of fighting the forfeiture usually outpaces the value of the seized property. This leads directly to the 60% default rate observed by the Texas Tribune. Bypassing criminal charges reduces the amount of time police and prosecutors have to spend processing the case, increasing the profitability of the seizure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: Data From Court Documents Shows Texas Law Enforcement Playing Small-Ball Forfeiture, Not Doing Much To Stop Drug Trafficking by Tim Cushing: Small seizures work out best for law enforcement. The cost of fighting the forfeiture usually outpaces the value &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38326\">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-38326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38326","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=38326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38327,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38326\/revisions\/38327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}