{"id":536,"date":"2016-04-28T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/04\/28\/interim-texas-tops-in-asset-forfeiture\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:28:00","slug":"interim-texas-tops-in-asset-forfeiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/interim-texas-tops-in-asset-forfeiture\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM. Texas Tops in Asset Forfeiture."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Redford, a doctoral fellow with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, makes these points about asset forefeiture in Texas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Texas is #1<\/strong>\u00a0in civil asset forefeiture according to the Institute for Justice<\/li>\n<li>Average annual total of seized assets:\u00a0\u00a0$41.6 million<\/li>\n<li>$540.7 million siezed in the last decade<\/li>\n<li><strong>It will get worse.\u00a0<\/strong>last week DOJ announced it was resuming its Equitable Sharing Program, a\u00a0civil asset forefeiture sharing program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How are\u00a0asset forefeiture proceeds disributed in Texas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>70% goes to law enforcement<\/li>\n<li>Supplements salaries<\/li>\n<li>Pay for new equipment<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;also used for other important policing business like lavish trips to Hawaii, gambling trips to Vegas, and booze and a margarita machine.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3 Solutions for Texas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Look to Florida.<\/strong> Require\u00a0police to file criminal charges before seizing property.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Look to Montana and New Mexico.\u00a0<\/strong>Require a criminal conviction before assets can be seized.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Look to New Mexico. &#8220;<\/strong>Eliminated the revenue-seeking incentive for law enforcement by requiring that all proceeds go to a general fund instead of directly to law enforcement.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/latest-columns\/20160420-audrey-redford-how-police-can-seize-your-property-without-a-trial.ece\">Dallas Morning News |\u00a0Audrey Redford: How police can seize your property without a trial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Redford, a doctoral fellow with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, makes these points about asset forefeiture in Texas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Texas is #1<\/strong>\u00a0in civil asset forefeiture according to the Institute for Justice<\/li>\n<li>Average annual total of seized assets:\u00a0\u00a0$41.6 million<\/li>\n<li>$540.7 million siezed in the last decade<\/li>\n<li><strong>It will get worse.\u00a0<\/strong>last week DOJ announced it was resuming its Equitable Sharing Program, a\u00a0civil asset forefeiture sharing program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How are\u00a0asset forefeiture proceeds&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legislation-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}