Sometimes the prosecutor or police official will offer part of the assets back to the owner if the owner will promise not to sue to get the entire amount back. And that started in 1984. Therefore, the incentive is not to intercept drugs but to intercept assets. Officers may very well wait for a drug dealer to sell his merchandise before making the arrest so that the cash may be appropriated to the arresting agency. As agencies become flush with seized assets, they become addicted to that source of income.
Officers are then under increasing pressure to maintain a quota of seized assets.
We Deserve How the Supreme Court in 1996 could uphold this abuse of constitutional rights is beyond reason. Yet these nefarious violations of constitutional liberties continue to increase through the rapacious predatations of the the world's largest law firm, the United States Department of Justice. The right to property is an inherent part of human rights and the U.S. government's despotic trampling of this inalienable right reveals its true position on human rights. The DOJ is merely reflecting the attitude of the United States government and the despotic powers that control it from behind the scenes. It is no small wonder that Americans can sleep on while the DOJ overturns reforms that would help turn back a tide of repression.