Indeed, many forfeiture victims never get their property back, nor are charges ever filed, without which they don't have standing to sue for return of their property.
It's the new Jim Crow.
It's the new Jim Crow.
" Asset forfeiture practices often go hand-in-hand with racial profiling and disproportionately impact low-income African-American or Hispanic people who the police decide look suspicious and for whom the arcane process of trying to get one’s property back is an expensive challenge. ACLU believes that such routine “civil asset forfeiture” puts our civil liberties and property rights under assault, and calls for reform of state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws."
Probably not designed to have that effect, but it does.
* at least at the city level this is true; I review all the civil forfeiture requests made by a city and every affidavit contains a copy of said notification.