*Disclaimer: Title is from the original article Civil forfeiture sounds like a cruel joke. Are there any "positive arguments" for it? From the article: I truly wonder how much of the reason that...
*Disclaimer: Title is from the original article
Civil forfeiture sounds like a cruel joke. Are there any "positive arguments" for it?
From the article:
Why are black citizens like Bromell facing forfeiture more often than their white neighbors?
One police official said it’s because there’s more drug crime in the black community.
“We go where we’re called,” Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said. “We police where people are telling us there are problems. We’re not an agency — and I don’t know a police agency — that tries to balance racially its interdiction of drugs off the street.”
The bulk of the drugs and weapons calls the city receives are in minority communities, Miller said. He said he won't apologize if police tactics disproportionately engage black men and lead to more seizures.
In Greenville County, the Sheriff’s Office initiated 256 forfeiture cases from 2014-2016, of which 150 involved blacks and 85 involved whites.
Greenville city police had 89 cases. Of those, 53 involved blacks and 22 involved whites.
I truly wonder how much of the reason that "there's more drug crime in the black community" is because drug use among white people is so rarely viewed as a crime.
Please tag this with topic "USA". This is not a worldwide issue.
*Disclaimer: Title is from the original article
Civil forfeiture sounds like a cruel joke. Are there any "positive arguments" for it?
From the article:
I truly wonder how much of the reason that "there's more drug crime in the black community" is because drug use among white people is so rarely viewed as a crime.