• “Justice Department suspends abusive asset forfeiture program – for now” [Ilya Somin]
• Tulsa sheriff steers seizures to judge it once employed, invokes unclaimed property law which dodges burden of proof [The Frontier]
• Op-ed claims that if Maryland cops grab your stuff you must be a “drug dealer,” trial or no [Joseph Cassilly, Baltimore Sun]
• Quest for revenue-self-sufficient law enforcement can end in “independent, self-funding armed gangs” [Noah Smith, Bloomberg View]
• “Get rid of policing for profit in Michigan” [Angela Erickson, Detroit News]
• Congress has twice tried to make it easier for prevailing claimants to recover attorneys’ fees when recovering seized property, but the government finds ways to slip around [Scott Greenfield]
• Value of assets seized by law enforcement in U.S. in 2014 exceeds value taken by burglars [Armstrong Economics]

Filed under: Department of Justice, forfeiture, law enforcement for profit, Maryland, Michigan, Oklahoma