{"id":2458,"date":"2016-05-07T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2016-05-07T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T04:04:37","slug":"close-the-federal-loophole-that-lets-cops-go-treasure-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Close the federal loophole that lets cops go treasure hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Eh Wah is tour manager for a Christian rock band led by Marvellous that played in 19 U.S. cities, raising money from concerts to support an orphanage in Thailand and a Christian college in Burma. Worthy causes, no doubt. But when law enforcement found the cash during a routine traffic stop, a little-known legal process known as \u201ccivil asset forfeiture\u201d allowed police officers to seize it, and whatever other property they wanted, without having to prove that Eh Wah was guilty of a crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-0504-issa-civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-20160504-story.html\">Close the federal loophole that lets cops go treasure hunting &#8211; LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eh Wah is tour manager for a Christian rock band led by Marvellous that played in 19 U.S. cities, raising money from concerts to support an orphanage in Thailand and a Christian college in Burma. Worthy causes, no doubt. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2458\">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":[148],"tags":[219,220],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-highway-robbery","tag-highwaymen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}