One of the government’s most egregious powers is civil forfeiture, which lets police confiscate—and even keep—private property without ever charging the owner with a crime. But in 2015, New Mexico ...

Rep. Justin Amash, the nation’s sole Libertarian congressman, introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the federal government from using civil forfeiture, which lets law enforcement take cash ...

Law enforcement groups have long argued that civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, is a vital tool for stopping ...

Civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes a person’s private property on the assumption that the property is connected to a crime. However, the government does not actually have to prove ...

A civil forfeiture case brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York seeks to seize two Manhattan ...

Law enforcement agencies claim to fight crime when they seize and keep cash without securing a conviction. But new peer-reviewed research undercuts the narrative. The study, published in Criminal ...

Civil forfeiture is sometimes a perfectly legitimate practice: Thieves do not have a right to keep the property they’ve stolen, for example. But the state’s power to compel the transfer of property ...

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Another year has come to pass, another year in which the State of Kansas continued to unconstitutionally take millions of dollars from people within its borders through the state’s civil asset ...

Civil asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize property they allege is connected to crime without arresting (let alone convicting) the owner, has provoked intense criticism in the United States, ...