{"id":49105,"date":"2021-07-16T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49105"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:26:31","slug":"the-crime-report-how-civil-asset-forfeiture-turns-authorities-into-bounty-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49105","title":{"rendered":"The Crime Report: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Authorities into \u2018Bounty Hunters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Crime Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecrimereport.org\/2021\/07\/16\/how-civil-asset-forfeiture-turns-authorities-into-bounty-hunters\/\">How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Authorities into \u2018Bounty Hunters\u2019<\/a> by Eva Herscowitz (\u201cCivil asset forfeiture gives police officers the right to seize cash, cars and homes from people who haven\u2019t been convicted of a crime, which is why it\u2019s time to end this exploitative practice by passing laws that prohibit it, argues the USA Today Editorial Board. Intended to reduce crime by seizing the profits of drug dealers, civil asset forfeiture has become a legal way for officers to pocket the property of mostly poor and innocent people, the editorial says.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crime Report: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Authorities into \u2018Bounty Hunters\u2019 by Eva Herscowitz (\u201cCivil asset forfeiture gives police officers the right to seize cash, cars and homes from people who haven\u2019t been convicted of a crime, which is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49105\">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-49105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105","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=49105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49106,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105\/revisions\/49106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}