The Playboy Forum
February, 1986
Police PowerAs hostile as I am toward drug dealers, I find it worrisome that the Government is starting to use a Federal civil statute to not only seize but sell a suspect's assets before he even goes on trial. I imagine that this is being done at present in cases where guilt is fairly obvious; but If can see this law as one that will sooner or later be abused as police discover that merely charging someone with drug felonies permits them to destroy him financially, guilty or not. Indeed, this c...
