{"id":19872,"date":"2015-12-09T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:29:41","slug":"houston-chronicle-miller-texas-fails-to-protect-property-owners-from-civil-forfeiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19872","title":{"rendered":"Houston Chronicle: Miller: Texas fails to protect property owners from civil forfeiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/opinion\/outlook\/article\/Miller-Texas-fails-to-protect-property-owners-6676811.php\">Texas fails to protect property owners from civil forfeiture<\/a> by Matt Miller:<\/p>\n<p>Texas law enforcement agencies have taken in over half a billion dollars in forfeiture revenue an average of $41.5 million per year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civil forfeiture is a booming industry in Texas. Every year, police and prosecutors statewide take in more and more cash and property from people without so much as charging them with a crime. Between 2001 and 2013 (the most recent year for which these numbers are available), Texas law enforcement agencies have taken in over half a billion dollars in forfeiture revenue &#8211; an average of $41.5 million per year. Make no mistake: Reform is sorely needed. Texas&#8217; civil forfeiture laws receive a grade of &#8220;D&#038;&#8221; in &#8220;Policing for Profit,&#8221; a recently updated nationwide report from the Institute for Justice. Texas scores so poorly for three reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Chronicle: Texas fails to protect property owners from civil forfeiture by Matt Miller: Texas law enforcement agencies have taken in over half a billion dollars in forfeiture revenue an average of $41.5 million per year. Civil forfeiture is a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19872\">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-19872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872","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=19872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}