Sessions greenlights police to seize cash, property from people suspected of crimes but not charged

[EasyAce]

By Sari Horwitz
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-greenlights-police-to-increase-seizures-of-cash-and-property-from-suspected-criminals/2017/07/19/3522a9ba-6c99-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.8910f9bfeb59

The Justice Department announced a new federal policy Wednesday to help state and local police take cash and property from people suspected of a crime, even without a criminal charge, reversing an Obama administration rule prompted by past abuse by police.

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said the Justice Department will include more safeguards to prevent the kind of problems that have been documented in the past. Police departments will be required to provide details to the Justice Department about probable cause for seizures, and federal officials will have to more quickly inform property owners about their rights and the status of the seizures.

“The goal here is to empower our police and prosecutors with this important tool that can be used to combat crime, particularly drug abuse,” Rosenstein said at a news briefing. “This is going to enable us to work with local police and our prosecutors to make sure that when assets are lawfully seized that they’re not returned to criminals when there’s a valid basis for them to be forfeited" . . .

. . . “You’re never going to eliminate allegations of abuses,” Rosenstein said, “never going to eliminate mistakes 100 percent. But I think this new policy is going to position us very well to make sure there are very few credible allegations of abuse, and where there are we’re going to make it a priority to follow up.”

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Mr. Rosenstein, I reply in the immortal words of Tom . . .

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[Frank Cannon]

Police departments will be required to provide details to the Justice Department about probable cause for seizures, and federal officials will have to more quickly inform property owners about their rights and the status of the seizures.

Well this is actually better than the system we have now with Barney Fife taking peoples shit without any oversight. Problem is we have two professional losers running the oversight. One too stupid to tie his shoes (Sessions) and the other that should have his own shit seized for being a crook (Rosenstien).

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Police departments will be required to provide details to the Justice Department about probable cause for seizures, and federal officials will have to more quickly inform property owners about their rights and the status of the seizures.

Well this is actually better than the system we have now with Barney Fife taking peoples shit without any oversight. Problem is we have two professional losers running the oversight. One too stupid to tie his shoes (Sessions) and the other that should have his own shit seized for being a crook (Rosenstien).

Oh yeah?  Well who the eff is going to watch the watchmen?