{"id":29770,"date":"2017-10-19T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29770"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:01:09","slug":"wapo-justice-department-creates-watchdog-for-asset-forfeiture-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29770","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Justice Department creates watchdog for asset forfeiture program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/justice-department-creates-watchdog-for-asset-forfeiture-program\/2017\/10\/17\/af1825fa-b358-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.2f1799d4f198\">Justice Department creates watchdog for asset forfeiture program<\/a> by Sari Horowitz: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions is setting up a unit in the Justice Department to oversee a policy he reinstated to help state and local police take cash and property from people suspected of a crime, even if they have not been charged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Justice Department creates watchdog for asset forfeiture program by Sari Horowitz: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is setting up a unit in the Justice Department to oversee a policy he reinstated to help state and local police take cash and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29770\">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-29770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770","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=29770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}