Another Innocent Parent Loses Their Car to Civil Asset Forfeiture
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/another-innocent-parent-loses-their-car
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/another-innocent-parent-loses-their-car
As I've written about time and time again, one of the most pernicious features of civil asset forfeiture is how it can be used to not only seize property based on mere suspicion, but also to seize property from innocent owners who were in no way connected to any alleged illegal activity.
In many cases, this takes the form of police seizing parents' cars because of things their children do. The parents must then prove their innocence to retrieve their own property. Today's bit of anecdotal data comes from Tennessee's Fox13:
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