{"id":53809,"date":"2022-12-17T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53809"},"modified":"2022-12-17T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T10:44:00","slug":"wapo-police-thought-his-cash-was-suspicious-so-they-took-it-and-wont-give-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53809","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won\u2019t give it back."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/12\/02\/arizona-civil-forfeiture-nightmare\/\">Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won\u2019t give it back.<\/a> by George F. Will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rebuilding his post-prison life \u2014 drug offenses derailed the young Jerry Johnson \u2014 he attempted a 50 percent increase of his North Carolina trucking firm, from two semi-trucks, nine and 16 years old, to three. Learning of a used-truck auction in Arizona, he assembled from his savings and from relatives $39,500 in cash, and flew there in August 2020.<\/p><p>At a luggage carousel in Phoenix\u2019s Sky Harbor International Airport, he was involuntarily enrolled in a Kafkaesque tutorial now in its third year. He now understands the perverse consequences of giving government a pecuniary incentive, through civil forfeiture, to shift onto accused persons the burden of proving their innocence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won\u2019t give it back. by George F. Will:<\/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-53809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53809","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=53809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53810,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53809\/revisions\/53810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}