“New Mexico is small, but this move is significant because it shows the breakdown of a decades-old national political consensus between law enforcement bureaucracies and ‘law and order’ politicians, a Bootlegger-and-Baptist coalition that helped create and sustain the civil forfeiture regime. Combined with former AG Eric Holder’s modest reform of a federal program that allowed police to do an end-run around state laws limiting forfeiture, there is hope that the moral cover for this deeply corrosive practice is being stripped away, and the public will finally see it for what it is: a racket.”
http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/czars-no-more-state-bans-policing-for-profit
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