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Cato Video • January 21, 2016 

# What the President Should Do: Civil Asset Forfeiture 

Civil asset forfeiture creates an inappropriate profit motive for predatory policing, it distorts the priorities of law enforcement, and it tramples our constitutional principles. President Obama should take the time to end these practices before he leaves office.

“What the President Should Do” is a new series by the Cato Institute discussing what President Obama can do using executive authority his final year in office to make the U.S. a freer and happier place.

More from Adam Bates on the topic of Civil Asset Forfeiture: 
[https://​www​.cato​.org/​p​e​o​p​l​e​/​a​d​a​m​-​bates](https://www.cato.org/people/adam-bates)

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##### [Adam Bates](/people/adam-bates)

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