Civil asset forfeiture is a controversial legal process that allows law enforcement agencies to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the property owner has not ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Three and a half years after a drug kingpin pleaded guilty, prosecutors this week asked a federal judge to issue a final order allowing them to seize the vestiges of his former ...

An examination of the incentives created by structuring a Bitcoin reserve to hold seized coins with civil asset forfeiture existing. Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic ...

“I need to report a crime,” Terry Richmond, the protagonist of the currently popular Netflix movie “Rebel Ridge,” tells Jessica Sims, a police officer in a small Louisiana town. That crime was highway ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Critics of a law that allows law enforcement to seize personal property to fund operations say the process is rife with problems, lawmakers were told Tuesday.

A recent audit of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office's use of state asset forfeiture funds in 2019 and 2020 found a series of record keeping issues and the loss of $610 in funds. The Feb. 7 ...

Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, is the author of "Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives" (Prometheus Books). Follow him on ...

"I need to report a crime," Terry Richmond, the protagonist of the currently popular Netflix movie Rebel Ridge, tells Jessica Sims, a police officer in a small Louisiana town. That crime was highway ...