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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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US law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)

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US law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year
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Federal asset forfeitures topped burglary losses for the first time in 2014.
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    How do we know that if we’re only looking at old data? What if the numbers have only gone up since then!?

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      We know that because all the systemic issues are still fundamentally the same. Things don’t just happen randomly in the world.

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        Things don’t just happen randomly in the world

        They absolutely do, but either way, if the issues are systemic then surely you can find a more recent article rather than expecting us to discuss data from the Obama era.

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          I’m sure these numbers are publicly available and if you’re claiming that situation changed in a positive direction then feel free to show that. Meanwhile, thinking that life is just a series of random events that don’t have systemic causes is a pretty hilarious way to live.

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        Yeah it’s not like there were any big events in the meantime. Certainly not two elections of very different presidents or a whole global pandemic. Certainly nothing crazy that could change the data in one way or the other

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          If anything these events led to even further militarization of police in US, certainly can’t think of any meaningful police reforms that happened during this time.

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          Oh and here is a report from 2020, no surprises there

          https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/

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