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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Danr, post: 622318, member: 3715&quot;]&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp; Nearly three-fourths of the people who lose property in forfeiture cases are never charged with a crime.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * About two-thirds of the people who had property seized had no criminal records in Maricopa County.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * One of every six people whose property was seized was an uninvolved third party who was not even present when the property was taken. Typically these were parents, siblings, boyfriends, or girlfriends who entrusted their cars or other property to someone who was arrested on a narcotics-related charge.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * More than $4 million in cash - 54.8% of that taken - was seized from people who were never charged with a crime.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * More than 800 cars - 72% of those taken - were seized from people who were never charged with a crime.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * More than 500 guns - 65.6% of those taken - were seized from people who were never charged with a crime.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Of the more than 2,400 people whose property was seized, only one in five was ultimately convicted.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Only one in 20 went to prison.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * One in 40 went to prison for five years or more, even though those are the people most likely to be the kingpins at which the law is aimed.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * For every person imprisoned five years or more, six uninvolved third parties lost property to forfeitures.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Despite the law&#039;s stated aim of breaking wealthy crime organizations, the average cash seizure is $3,063.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * According to the Mesa Tribune study, the nine agencies raised $26.5 million in that time period. Typically, forfeiture profits are divided among the agencies that contributed to the case.</p><p>&quot;</p><p>These numbers apply to one county (Arizona&#039;s Maricopa county)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/aforfeit.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/aforfeit.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/aforfeit.shtml</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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