{"id":15390,"date":"2015-01-10T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15390"},"modified":"2015-01-10T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:16:12","slug":"wapo-lawmakers-urge-end-to-program-sharing-forfeited-assets-with-state-and-local-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15390","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Lawmakers urge end to program sharing forfeited assets with state and local police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/lawmakers-urge-end-to-program-sharing-forfeited-assets-with-state-and-local-police\/2015\/01\/09\/8843a43c-982f-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html\">Lawmakers urge end to program sharing forfeited assets with state and local police<\/a> by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees on Friday called on the Justice Department to end the sharing of civil seizure proceeds with local and state police, a change that with few exceptions would cut the flow of hundreds of million of dollars annually to departments in every state. In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the lawmakers said they think money from Justice&#8217;s Equitable Sharing Program, the federal government&#8217;s largest civil asset forfeiture initiative, may be encouraging heavy-handed tactics by local and state police agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Lawmakers urge end to program sharing forfeited assets with state and local police by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.: Leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees on Friday called on the Justice Department to end the sharing of civil seizure &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15390\">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-15390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390","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=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15391,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions\/15391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}