WaPo: Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won’t give it back.

WaPo: Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won’t give it back. by George F. Will:

Rebuilding his post-prison life — drug offenses derailed the young Jerry Johnson — 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.

At a luggage carousel in Phoenix’s 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.

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