Over the past decade, Michigan policymakers responded by significantly changing the state’s forfeiture laws. These changes resulted in fewer forfeitures overall and reduced efforts by law enforcement to take assets from people who were never charged with a crime. But hundreds of people in Michigan still lose their property every year without being convicted of breaking the law.
This report explains why the way to protect individuals’ civil and property rights — even for those accused of criminal behavior — is to end civil forfeiture altogether.
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