{"id":429,"date":"2015-12-13T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/12\/13\/interim-civil-asset-forfeiture-yields-1m-per-year-for-1-city-how-1-city-lost-its-revenue-ignored-reform-laws\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:42:00","slug":"interim-civil-asset-forfeiture-yields-1m-per-year-for-1-city-how-1-city-lost-its-revenue-ignored-reform-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/interim-civil-asset-forfeiture-yields-1m-per-year-for-1-city-how-1-city-lost-its-revenue-ignored-reform-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM Civil Asset Forfeiture Yields $1M per year for 1 City. How 1 City Lost its Revenue &#038; Ignored Reform Laws."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Asset Forfeiture generates more than $1 million in revenue per year for\u00a0The City of Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this $1 Million tied to convicted criminals?<\/strong>\u00a0No. There were no criminal convictions for any of the affected property owners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does\u00a0Albuquerque use the funding for?<\/strong>\u00a0It pays\u00a0the salaries of the people seizing the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the program in Albuquerque go awry?<\/strong>\u00a0A city attorney publicly referred to asset forefeiture as a &#8220;\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/nicks29\/aif-in-doubtatake-ita-behind-closed-doors-4y3w\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,169,172);text-decoration:none;font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">gold mine<\/a>\u201d and property seized through civil forfeiture as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/10\/us\/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html?_r=1\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,169,172);text-decoration:none;font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">little goodies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislature passed a bill to restrain civil asset forfeiture, but it is not being enforced. What happens next?<\/strong>\u00a0A bipartisan group of State Senators joined with the Institute of Justice to force enforcement through New Mexico&#8217;s court system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ij.org\/case\/new-mexico-forfeiture\/\">Institute for Justice\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Asset Forfeiture generates more than $1 million in revenue per year for\u00a0The City of Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this $1 Million tied to convicted criminals?<\/strong>\u00a0No. There were no criminal convictions for any of the affected property owners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does\u00a0Albuquerque use the funding for?<\/strong>\u00a0It pays\u00a0the salaries of the people seizing the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the program in Albuquerque go awry?<\/strong>\u00a0A city attorney publicly referred to asset forefeiture as a &#8220;\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/nicks29\/aif-in-doubtatake-ita-behind-closed-doors-4y3w\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,169,172);text-decoration:none;font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">gold mine<\/a>\u201d and property seized through civil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}