"Income mobility in the United States has stagnated, a fact that hurts the poor most of all. If President Trump wishes to keep his promises to help low-income Americans escape poverty, he should instruct his administration to jettison, rather than expand, non-criminal asset forfeiture.
Non-criminal asset forfeiture lets government agents seize Americans’ assets (cash, but also cars and even houses) on the mere suspicion that they were involved in a crime. Asset forfeiture is intended to deprive criminals of their ill-gotten gains, but frequently enables police to take the property of Americans who remain innocent in the eyes of the law. According to a Department of Justice report, they’ve seized $29 billion from 2007-2016 on the federal level."
https://fee.org/articles/civil-asset-forfeiture-unjustly-targets-the-poor/
Non-criminal asset forfeiture lets government agents seize Americans’ assets (cash, but also cars and even houses) on the mere suspicion that they were involved in a crime. Asset forfeiture is intended to deprive criminals of their ill-gotten gains, but frequently enables police to take the property of Americans who remain innocent in the eyes of the law. According to a Department of Justice report, they’ve seized $29 billion from 2007-2016 on the federal level."
https://fee.org/articles/civil-asset-forfeiture-unjustly-targets-the-poor/