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Forfeiture: “Police Departments Addicted to ‘Dirty Money'”

That one Texas town’s habitual seizure of the money of motorists passing through may not have been an isolated incident [NPR, Defending People, Grits for Breakfast].

Filed under: forfeiture, police, Texas

  • By Walter Olson
  • February 25, 2009
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