Shadowproof —Between 2001 and 2017, the federal government seized $40 billion from ordinary people and high profile criminal defendants, including major corporations, through asset forfeiture. The money was funneled into the Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF), a trust founded in 1984 through the Comprehensive Crime Control Act as part of the War on
How Civil Asset Forfeiture Could Undermine Efforts to Defund Police
The public has little control over the police budgets, and no control over their external revenue sources like asset forfeiture, which massively contribute to the expansion of the police state.
By Ella Fassler
