{"id":14258,"date":"2014-11-18T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:44:14","slug":"14258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14258","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times: D.C. rethinks rules that let police seize, keep suspects\u2019 cash, property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/17\/dc-rethinks-rules-that-let-police-seize-keep-suspe\/#ixzz3JRtreE9B\">D.C. rethinks rules that let police seize, keep suspects\u2019 cash, property<\/a> by Andrea Noble:<\/p>\n<p>Civil asset forfeiture policies facing increasing scrutiny nationwide<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D.C. lawmakers are pushing forward with legislation to reform policies allowing police to seize property from people they stop, regardless of whether criminal charges are ever filed \u2014 a practice called civil asset forfeiture that is facing increasing scrutiny nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes, the D.C. Council has proposed diverting profits from seizures into the city\u2019s general fund instead of letting the police department keep and spend the money, reducing the appearance that officers have an incentive to take cash or cars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times: D.C. rethinks rules that let police seize, keep suspects\u2019 cash, property by Andrea Noble: Civil asset forfeiture policies facing increasing scrutiny nationwide D.C. lawmakers are pushing forward with legislation to reform policies allowing police to seize property from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14258\">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-14258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258","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=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14276,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions\/14276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}