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On the recordMarch 10, 2021
It has a perverse financial incentive to have law enforcement target people to get their assets.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon discusses the issues with civil forfeiture in relation to the War on Drugs.

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