Pennsylvania Cops Are Still Abusing Asset Forfeiture To Help Themselves To People's Cash
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201001/14374845426/pennsylvania-cops-are-still-abusing-asset-forfeiture-to-help-themselves-to-peoples-cash.shtml
Asset forfeiture remains one of the most abused law enforcement practices in the country. While some attempts have been made to rein in this abuse, in most locales, it's just considered a useful law enforcement tool with minimal downsides.
Pennsylvania has some of the worst asset forfeiture laws in the nation. And it shows. Law enforcement has occasionally been benchslapped by judges for traveling past the wide boundaries granted to it by local legislators. In one case, a judge stopped the state from seizing a grandmother's house just because her son sold officers $140-worth of marijuana from the residence.