{"id":2386,"date":"2015-12-26T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2015-12-26T21:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:35:22","slug":"the-justice-department-just-shut-down-a-huge-asset-forfeiture-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But reformers point out that the change doesn&#8217;t impact law enforcement&#8217;s ability to seize goods from suspected criminals &#8212; it only changes their legal options for keeping what they take. The change &#8220;does not stop police and prosecutors from chasing criminals,&#8221; McGrath said in a statement. &#8220;[Police] are frustrated because Congress put on hold their chasing cash.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/23\/the-feds-just-shut-down-a-huge-program-that-lets-cops-take-your-stuff-and-keep-it\/\">The Justice Department just shut down a huge asset forfeiture program &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But reformers point out that the change doesn&#8217;t impact law enforcement&#8217;s ability to seize goods from suspected criminals &#8212; it only changes their legal options for keeping what they take. The change &#8220;does not stop police and prosecutors from chasing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}