March 31, 2010 5:01PM

Policing for Profit

By Tim Lynch

Our friends at the Institute for Justice just released a comprehensive report on the abuses that go on under the legal procedure known as "civil asset forfeiture." The report is called Policing for Profit (pdf). Here is a short video clip that IJ put together:

Senior IJ attorney Scott Bullock will be speaking on this subject here at the Cato Institute on April 28. Details on that event are forthcoming.

For related Cato work on forfeiture, go here and here.

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