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Mary Gay Scanlon: It is a program that is designed to deal with the War on Drugs, but it has a perverse financial incentive to have law…

On the recordMarch 10, 2021
It is a program that is designed to deal with the War on Drugs, but 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 drug enforcement.

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