<story><title>Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/07/11/police-seized-innocent-peoples-property-and-kept-it-for-years-what-will-the-supreme-court-do/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambeau</author><text>This graph from the 2015 article &amp;quot;Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year&amp;quot; really rammed this home for me:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;wonk&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;wonk&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;cops-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/07/11/police-seized-innocent-peoples-property-and-kept-it-for-years-what-will-the-supreme-court-do/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkubicek</author><text>Severely limiting the scope of civil forfeiture seems like one of those political issues that &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; across the political spectrum can agree on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m constantly hearing horror stories like the ones in this article and I&amp;#x27;ve never heard any reasonable defense of our current system. In fact, I&amp;#x27;ve never even heard an unreasonable defense.</text></comment>