Wednesday, October 08, 2014

John Oliver on Civil Asset Forfeiture

Here's another good John Oliver story, this one on Civil Forfeiture. I don't think I've blogged about it (maybe in the twitter feed) but a friend mentioned it to me last year. The first big stories I saw about it were from August 2013. Sarah Stilman's Taken in The New Yorker (and related 20 min podcast Out Loud: Highway Robbery) and ProPublica's Law to Clean Up ‘Nuisances’ Costs Innocent People Their Homes. The ACLU has a page on Civil Asset Forfeiture.

But John Oliver is funnier:

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