Rep Garrett with two vets at the Glen Rock street fair . These two gentlemen were at the fair representing the VFW. Join me in thanking them for their service to our country!
Rep Scott Garrett crusade against “for-profit policing” gains traction
October 6th 2014
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, In September Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), and Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), introduced H.R. 5502, the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration (FAIR) Act, to protect Americans from having their property seized without the due process of law. The FAIR Act makes a number of changes to civil asset forfeiture laws to restore the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Recently unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture or Policing for profit has started to gain traction with the media .
Garrett said “I’m glad to see that more people are starting to draw attention to civil asset forfeiture laws. My bill, the FAIR Act, would protect Americans from unconstitutional civil asset forfeitures.”
Learn more here: https://1.usa.gov/1s6Yg99
John Oliver rips into the scandal of for-profit policing
Updated by Timothy B. Lee on October 6, 2014, 9:40 a.m. ET tim@vox.com
In America, people are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Yet a crazy loophole in US law has allowed the police to take billions of dollars worth of property from ordinary Americans without even charging them with a crime.
John Oliver explains how this scheme, known as civil asset forfeiture, works:
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/6/6918047/john-oliver-explains-how-the-police-can-take-your-stuff-without
