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Massachusetts Remains a Civil Forfeiture Outlier

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2022 by Jayson Hawkins published in Criminal Legal News March, 2022, page 44
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Forfeiture. Location: Massachusetts.

by Jayson Hawkins 

The five-plus decade battlefield of America’s war on drugs and crime is littered with dishonesty, abuse, and failure, which goes far to explain why 50 years of social war has achieved nothing beyond the growth of a massive police state and increased unrest in over-policed …

 

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