(Mint Press) - In this post-housing crash economy, many law enforcement agencies have come to rely on funds obtained from asset forfeitures to meet budget shortages. These funds are commonly thought of as the symbolic end of a drug conviction case; however, their existence has raised concerns of overreach and malpractice by law
Law Enforcement Reliance On Asset-Forfeiture Funds — Policing For Profit?
In this photo released by the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, alleged drug trafficker Horst Walther Overdick is escorted by DEA agents to a waiting plane during his extradition to the U.S., at an air force base in Guatemala City, Monday Dec. 10, 2012. Overdick, also know as «The Tiger,» was arrested in April by the […]