{"id":13378,"date":"2014-09-19T13:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13378"},"modified":"2014-09-19T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:26:56","slug":"wapo-op-ed-government-self-interest-corrupted-a-crime-fighting-tool-into-an-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13378","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Op-ed: Government self-interest corrupted a crime-fighting tool into an evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Op-ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/abolish-the-civil-asset-forfeiture-program-we-helped-create\/2014\/09\/18\/72f089ac-3d02-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html\">Government self-interest corrupted a crime-fighting tool into an evil<\/a> by John Yoder and Brad Cates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/investigative\/2014\/09\/06\/stop-and-seize\/?hpid=z3\">The Post published a series<\/a> of in-depth articles about the abuses spawned by the law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture. As two people who were heavily involved in the creation of the asset forfeiture initiative at the Justice Department in the 1980s, we find it particularly painful to watch as the heavy hand of government goes amok. The program began with good intentions but now, having failed in both purpose and execution, it should be abolished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Op-ed: Government self-interest corrupted a crime-fighting tool into an evil by John Yoder and Brad Cates: Last week, The Post published a series of in-depth articles about the abuses spawned by the law enforcement practice known as civil asset &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13378\">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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}