End/make illegal the practice of Civil Asset Forfeiture. This power, granted to police/federal authorities, enables them to seize a person’s assets and keep them without cause. Some police departments even treat this as a source of funding, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by stopping drivers for whatever reason they can find, then seizing any cash or valuables they can get their hands on. A few years ago the FBI raided a small safety deposit box practice as suspected criminals had assets there, then seized and kept nearly all the assets found in all the other safety deposit boxes, which belonged to law abiding citizens. This practice is a criminal abuse of power by federal and state authorities and must end.
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I am concerned of Civil Asset Forfeiture has no place in law. It is a war crime by international law - abhorred by the world : https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule50
As such it obstructs a wide range of investment from foreign countries, as well as people who are here in the US, such as small business.
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