New DOJ Civil Forfeiture Policy Incentivizes Police to Profit from Seizing Property from People Not Charged with Any Crime; Reverses Obama Era Policy that Placed Restrictions on Policing for Profit
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 19, 2017. Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new Department of Justice policy that increases the ability of state and local law enforcement to profit from civil forfeiture. This is a reversal of an Obama-era policyimplemented in 2015 that limited state…
