{"id":56145,"date":"2023-10-25T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56145"},"modified":"2023-10-26T05:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:03:11","slug":"techdirt-how-the-courts-have-made-it-easier-for-cops-to-steal-from-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56145","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: How The Courts Have Made It Easier For Cops To Steal From Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2023\/10\/25\/how-the-courts-have-made-it-easier-for-cops-to-steal-from-citizens\/\">How The Courts Have Made It Easier For Cops To Steal From Citizens<\/a> by Tim Cushing (&#8220;It\u2019s always been easy for cops to take stuff from people. Civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to bypass most of the Constitution so long as they imply things about the supposedly illegal source of the property they\u2019ve taken from citizens. The Fourth Amendment is almost worthless in these cases. Since there are no criminal proceedings, there\u2019s no avenue to challenge the search because prosecutors (who also often directly benefit from forfeiture) aren\u2019t going to introduce the seized property as evidence.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: How The Courts Have Made It Easier For Cops To Steal From Citizens by Tim Cushing (&#8220;It\u2019s always been easy for cops to take stuff from people. Civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to bypass most of the Constitution &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56145\">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-56145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56145","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=56145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56146,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56145\/revisions\/56146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}