Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Forfeiture Racket, or How the Government can Seize Your Money and Property without Charges

In the February issue of Reason, Radley Balko has written an excellent, comprhensive summary of the largely unknown constitutional abuse of the public known as civil forfeiture law.  In The Forfeiture Racket, Radley lays out some of the more heinous current abuses and the history of the forfeiture law’s end run around the contitution.  Radley details how the law enforcement tag team of  prosecutors and cops use this racket  to keep what is essentially stolen property for their own agencies,  including personal junkets.  The complete article is here.