National Police Misconduct Reporting Project

The Cash Machine: Philadelphia’s Forfeiture System

From the Philadelphia City Paper: The size of Philly’s forfeiture program isn’t just unprecedented within Pennsylvania. In 2010, for example, Kings County (Brooklyn), with a population 1.5 times that of Philadelphia, reported taking by forfeiture about $1.2 million in assets … Continue reading

Conrad Black on the American ‘Prosecutocracy’

From the  New  York  Sun Opinion Page: The Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments guarantee a grand jury (implicitly, though this is not expressly stated, to ensure against capricious prosecutions), just compensation for seized property, due process, access to counsel (of … Continue reading