Ain't nobody got time for your 4th Amend: Your guns needs a Director of Forfieture

[vinnyg101]

Sessions wants to hire a director of the DOJ’s asset forfeiture program






The Director of Asset Forfeiture Accountability will “ensure compliance, review complaints, and advance the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the program,” according to a press release from the Justice Department.

The controversial forfeiture program allows law enforcement to seize money, cars and other property from people — with or without criminal charges filed — as long as the property is suspected of being connected to a crime. A December 2016 Cato Institute poll found that 84 percent of Americans opposed civil asset forfeiture.

In July, Sessions rolled back an Obama era initiative that limited an element of the program. So-called “adoptive forfeiture” allows state and local agencies to bypass local restrictions on asset forfeiture by allowing the federal government to “adopt” the seized property, take a cut of the loot, and then give back the rest.

Sessions says a director will help keep the program accountable as the Department of Justice looks to fight crime under a law and order president.

“As our law enforcement partners will tell you and as President Trump knows well, asset forfeiture is a key tool that helps law enforcement defund organized crime, take back ill-gotten gains, and prevent new crimes from being committed, and it weakens the criminals and the cartels,” Sessions said. “Even more importantly, it helps return property to the victims of crime.”

In a memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Sessions instructed him to find a senior attorney with relevant experience. The right candidate, Sessions wrote, should be prepared to develop ways to restructure and streamline the asset forfeiture program.

“The American people and Congress must know this program is being administered professionally, lawfully, and in a manner consistent with sound public policy,” Sessions wrote in the memo.

“I make this decision today because I believe it is important to have senior-level accountability in the Department of the day-to-day workings of the asset forfeiture program, as well as authority to coordinate with relevant components to make the necessary changes to the program to ensure it continues to operate in an accountable and responsible way,” he said.


guns.com/2017/10/18/sessions-wants-to-hire-a-director-of-the-dojs-asset-forfeiture-program/
Brian Seay10/18/2017


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Good documentary to see below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP88_mNK3-U

[vinnyg101]

No due process....just accusations?

[Sgt.K]

No due process....just accusations?

Bingo.

[Carnes]

Bullshit. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Due, fucking, process.

[sgh]

Asset forfeiture is criminal. Don't be fooled into thinking it only applies to drugs. Get the wrong govt. types trying to make a point and you too could loose everything.

[vinnyg101]

NYPD doesn’t have a backup for its asset forfeiture database


https://www.guns.com/2017/10/21/nypd...ture-database/

Brian Seay10/21/2017

The NYPD doesn’t have a system in place to back up digital records of millions in seized funds.

The revelation came in a Manhattan courtroom this week, as a city attorney explained limitations of the NYPD’s Property and Evidence Tracking System, according to Courthouse News.

“That’s insane,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arlene Bluth from the bench upon learning of the system’s lack of a backup.

The discovery came after the nonprofit group Bronx Defenders requested access to the city’s forfeiture records. But city attorney Neil Giovanatti argued they couldn’t fulfill the request because of technical issues extracting the information from the forfeiture database. That’s when Giovanatti revealed that there was no backup of the Property and Evidence Tracking System.

According to records, the NYPD seized more than $6 million in 2013, meaning the city had around $68 million in forfeited cash — all of it detailed and recorded in a system that’s a power outage away from vanishing.

“Do you want the Daily News to be reporting that you have no copy of the data?” Bluth asked Giovanatti.

“That deserves an exposé in the New York Times,” she later said.

Perhaps more troubling is the limitations of the system relative to the cost of its implementation. The city paid technology company Capgemini $25.5 million in 2009 to set up the database.

In addition to the $68 million seized by the NYPD, a Department of Justice audit found the city had received another $14 million in 2014 through the Equitable Sharing Program. The program allows law enforcement to sidestep local restrictions on forfeiture by allowing the federal government to “adopt” the seized property, take a cut of the proceeds, and then give back the rest.

The controversial program, which was rolled back by the Obama administration in 2015, was recently reinstated by the Trump administration.

Last month, a report from the DOJ detailed how law enforcement misused seized funds by spending more than $110,000 on catering.