A Solution to Asset Forfeiture?

One of the most noxious practices in American law enforcement is that of asset forfeiture.

Under this practice, if police even suspect that an asset — any asset; your money, your car, your family home — was involved in the commission of a crime, you can be deprived of it.

Indefinitely.

In effect, since the asset isn’t a person, it has no constitutional rights. Get it? Consequently, if you want your asset(s) back, you have to sue to recover them. In practice this takes a lot of time, and can easily cost more than the asset is…

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I think about how to create societies of sustainable, technological abundance. My book, A Celebration Society, offers one solution. It has been well received.

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Jonathan Kolber

I think about how to create societies of sustainable, technological abundance. My book, A Celebration Society, offers one solution. It has been well received.