F.E.A.R. Chronicles newsletter
volume 3 number 2 (March 1996)
California Forfeiture Squads Bemoan "Curtailment" of Civil Asset Forfeiture.
Jeffrey J. Koch, then Supervising Deputy Attorney General for the California Asset Forfeiture Program, wrote for the National Association of Attorneys General in September, 1993: "Whereas the challenge to the federal statutes is sill in its infancy, the attack on state statutes has matured into a serious threat to the continued viability of state asset forfeiture."
Koch recommended state agencies use "adoptive" seizures, whereby police use federal laws to avoid the tide of state laws limiting civil forfeiture.
Apparently, according to this and similar statements from other spokespersons for agencies addicted to forfeiture revenue, asset forfeiture programs are only profitable when police are authorized to keep the proceeds of property seized without regard to due process, proportionality, or the rights of innocent owners.