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Taken: How Police Profit from Seized Property
No Drugs, No Crime And Just Pennies For School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture
This story is part of a collaborative-reporting initiative supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. All stories can be found here: https://taken.pulitzercenter.org/ In the past two decades, the federal government took in $36.5 billion in assets police seized from people on America’s roads and in its poorer neighborhoods, many of whom never were charged with a crime or shown to have drugs.