The United States Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture Program is a nationwide law enforcement program that has become a powerful weapon in the fight against crime. This involves removing the proceeds of crimes used by criminals to continue activity against society. Asset forfeiture has the impact of disrupting criminal activities that would continue to function if the only tool used was conviction and incarceration of certain individuals. While the Department of Justice program applies only to cases developed by enforcement officials in certain agencies of the Federal Government, state and local agencies may have similar programs and are not part of the federal program. (.http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp/)
Although the issue has sharply divided opinions, a prime example of how asset forfeiture has been used as a crime fighting tool, on both the federal, state and local levels, is the war on drugs.
On June 17th, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. He referred to......
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