{"id":30157,"date":"2017-11-15T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30157"},"modified":"2017-11-14T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:29:38","slug":"techdirt-opinion-doj-civil-asset-forfeiture-is-a-good-thing-that-only-harms-all-those-criminals-we-never-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30157","title":{"rendered":"TechDirt: Opinion: DOJ: Civil Asset Forfeiture Is A Good Thing That Only Harms All Those Criminals We Never Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: Opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20171110\/16394238589\/doj-civil-asset-forfeiture-is-good-thing-that-only-harms-all-those-criminals-we-never-arrest.shtml\">DOJ: Civil Asset Forfeiture Is A Good Thing That Only Harms All Those Criminals We Never Arrest<\/a> by Tim Cushing: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most cases, the agency performing the seizure is allowed to directly benefit from it. Whether it&#8217;s used to pay for new equipment or offset investigatory expenses, seized property rarely ends up back in the hands of victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: Opinion: DOJ: Civil Asset Forfeiture Is A Good Thing That Only Harms All Those Criminals We Never Arrest by Tim Cushing: In most cases, the agency performing the seizure is allowed to directly benefit from it. Whether it&#8217;s used &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30157\">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-30157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30157","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=30157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30158,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30157\/revisions\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}