{"id":50375,"date":"2021-11-12T01:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50375"},"modified":"2021-11-12T01:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T06:29:52","slug":"techdirt-institute-for-justice-survey-shows-how-philadelphias-forfeiture-program-preyed-on-poor-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50375","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia&#8217;s Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nacdl.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT04NTUxNTQ0JnA9MSZ1PTkxMzE2NjgyNyZsaT03Mzk0MzY4OA\/index.html\">Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia&#8217;s Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nacdl.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT04NTUxNTQ0JnA9MSZ1PTkxMzE2NjgyNyZsaT03Mzk0MzY4OQ\/index.html\">The Institute for Justice<\/a>\u00a0managed to kill off most of Philadelphia&#8217;s severely abused civil forfeiture program in 2018. Litigation\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nacdl.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT04NTUxNTQ0JnA9MSZ1PTkxMzE2NjgyNyZsaT03Mzk0MzY5MA\/index.html\">resulted in a consent decree<\/a>\u00a0that banned law enforcement from seizing cash amounts less than $250 and seizures of less than $1,000 were forbidden unless accompanied by criminal charges or if the seizure was to be used as evidence in a trial.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia&#8217;s Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities\u00a0(&#8220;The Institute for Justice\u00a0managed to kill off most of Philadelphia&#8217;s severely abused civil forfeiture program in 2018. Litigation\u00a0resulted in a consent decree\u00a0that banned law enforcement from seizing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50375\">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-50375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50375","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=50375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50376,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50375\/revisions\/50376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}