{"id":2701,"date":"2017-07-31T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:32:13","slug":"authorities-in-utah-seized-nearly-3-million-in-cash-and-assets-from-citizens-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in Utah Seized Nearly $3 Million in Cash and Assets From Citizens Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;What are they doing where they have to take that $16 to protect public safety,&#8221; says Jennifer McDonald, a research analyst for the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm that has challenged asset forfeiture laws in several states and advocates for reforms to the practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/report-average-asset-forfeiture-just-103\">Authorities in Utah Seized Nearly $3 Million in Cash and Assets From Citizens Last Year &#8211; Hit &amp; Run : Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What are they doing where they have to take that $16 to protect public safety,&#8221; says Jennifer McDonald, a research analyst for the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm that has challenged asset forfeiture laws in several states and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2701\">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":[59],"tags":[117,219,220],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleecing_the_rubes","tag-drug-war","tag-highway-robbery","tag-highwaymen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}