Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns
Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff.
12 December 2021
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Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff.
12 December 2021
On a May day in 2015, a task force of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and Miami-Dade Police Department officers raided Miladis Salgado's suburban Miami home and seized $15,000 in cash that they found in her closet. The DEA agents were acting on a tip from a confidential informant that Salgado's estranged husband was laundering drug money. The cash in Salgado's closet was not drug proceeds, however. It was money that Salgado, who worked at a duty-free store in the Miami airport, had been saving up for her daughter's quinceañera, an important coming-of-age 15th birthday party. Salgado had been planning ...
Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns
Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff.
reason.com