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According to an article on AL.com from June 19th, 2015, cases are described involving the abuse of civil asset forfeiture by police against citizens. In both cases, authorities moved to seize the property under civil asset forfeiture laws that allow the government to take control of money, houses and vehicles without ever bringing criminal charges. Darpana Sheth, an attorney with the Arlington, Va.-based Institute for Justice, told a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers in Mobile that the practice is rife with abuse and creates a perverse incentive for law enforcement authorities, who often are allowed to keep the seized property for their own agencies. “No one in America should lose his property without first being convicted of a crime,” Sheth told the Brevard Hand-Alex Howard Chapter of the Mobile Federalist Society.
