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DoJ ending civil asset forfeiture involving federal law

This should also reduce incarceration, through fewer unnecessary
stops, so fewer drug busts.
Next, how about end the failed War on Drugs?

By Robert O’Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich, Washington Post, 16 January 2015,

Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police,



Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state
police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property
without warrants or criminal charges.

Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power
to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three
decades ago as part of the war on drugs.

Since 2008, Continue reading →

Avoid charging low-level and nonviolent drug offenders –U.S. DoJ

It’s about time!
The War on Drugs has failed, admits the U.S. Department of Justice,
by saying it will “avoid charging certain low-level and nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimums”.

Ryan J. Reilly wrote for Huffpo today,

Eric Holder Outlining New Justice Department Drug Sentencing Reforms,



The Justice Department will avoid charging certain low-level and
nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimums,
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Monday. The policy shift
will allow certain defendants — those without ties to
large-scale organizations, gangs or cartels — to avoid what
Holder called “draconian mandatory minimum sentences.”

Holder, in a speech before the American Bar Association in San
Francisco on Monday, Continue reading →