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Reasonable time to plug one of the legal civil rights organizations that I try to financially support every year: The Institute for Justice.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

They are consistently fighting these kinds of abuses in the courts and through lobbying.

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I'm also a supporter. I am a bit confused why groups I normally support on the left have this as a somewhat low priority relative to the equity issues. This has an equity component too. The folks most likely to be unbanked, carrying around cash etc are minorities.

The favored solutions for "equity issues" usually involve jobs for left activists or NGOs - "defund the police" transmutes into "we need half a department worth of various flavors of social workers".

It's a low priority because fundamentally fixing a problem will put the group out of business. It's a tired outrage show. Wake me up when BLM starts demanding the removal of government immunity.

>It's a low priority because fundamentally fixing a problem will put the group out of business

Exactly. They can either go the way of urban democrats and persist by promising to solve problems you never solve (not that republicans have served rural voters any better) or they can go the way of MADD and actually make progress and then see interest wane. They chose the former.

Civil rights groups including Black Lives Matter have been talking about Qualified Immunity for a long time. It’s even on the BLM website.

Democrats and Republicans appear to be different when you listen to their speeches... but in the end, when you look at their actions or inactions, they are very similar on many topics.

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