Law enforcement groups have long argued that civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, is a vital tool for stopping ...

Some want Illinois' civil asset forfeiture system abolished. A retired police chief says it’s “one of the few tools that weakens criminal networks financially.” The Chicago Sun-Times went to Courtroom ...

Current OKC attorneys dispute a former employee's allegations that the city improperly kept hundreds of thousands in civil ...

Rep. Justin Amash, the nation’s sole Libertarian congressman, introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from using civil forfeiture, which lets law enforcement take cash ...

Former gun store owner Jeff Regnier and wife Greta Keranen say prosecutors abused their power when they used Illinois’s civil ...

One of the government’s most egregious powers is civil forfeiture, which lets police confiscate—and even keep—private property without ever charging the owner with a crime. But in 2015, New Mexico ...

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Law enforcement agencies claim to fight crime when they seize and keep cash without securing a conviction. But new peer-reviewed research undercuts the narrative. The study, published in Criminal ...

Civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes a person’s private property on the assumption that the property is connected to a crime. However, the government does not actually have to prove ...

Civil asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize property they allege is connected to crime without arresting (let alone convicting) the owner, has provoked intense criticism in the United States, ...

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have moved to forfeit 3.44 million USDT linked to an alleged text-based crypto ...