Another good move by this AG.  He worked to reduce the sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine, working to address the problem we have with sentencing guidelines, particularly with non-violent offenders.  Now he has severely restricted local police's ability to utilize the Equitable Sharing program.  Local police loved this program because  80% of the assets would go directly to the coffers of the local law enforcement budget rather than the state's general fund.  The program basically evolved into a way in which local police subsidized their budgets instead of a means to really hurt drug cartels and potential terrorists.  It basically criminalized the possession of cash while traveling on our roadways.  

be gone and not too soon!

I am still not so sure how I feel about the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. Although I believe that ALL drugs should be decriminalized, I still am quite aware that certain drugs like Crack, Ice, and a few others have nothing redeeming about them  and are many times more harmful to their users than their powder counterparts.

Ok, Now for me giving credit where credit is due. YES, I 100% support rolling back this travesty of justice, and if Holder is the one responsible, I will begrudgingly give him kudos for doing so. Civil Asset Forfeiture was one of the worst laws ever passed, right up there with Obama Care, and the Patriot Act, and I for one say "Good riddance"

Sorry DA, There is nothing this AG can do to make me a fan. He's done too much wrong, and has too little time to atone for his past sins, but this is a HUGE step in the right direction, and I 100% applaud the action.

Really!?  You cant see past your rabid partisanship to realize that sentencing disparities, excessive sentencing and in this case, Civil Asset forfeiture are real problems in the country.  You do know that this nation incarcerates more of it's citizens than any country in the world.  We have 2% of the worlds population and have over 25% of the worlds prison population.  These are good things and credit is deserved.

So yes you gave him credit, but your title says all we need to know about you.

Because he doesn't have an approval from a GNAT.  
LOL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/lawmakers-urge-end-to-program-sharing-forfeited-assets-with-state-and-local-police/2015/01/09/8843a43c-982f-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html

I will give him props here if what you say is actually how this plays out. You actually made me educate myself on CF and the accounts I have read are a fking disgrace.

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You sound like the fucking racist! What does his and the President's race have to do with this thread about unlawful and unconstitutional forfeitures of the property of innocent people?

and I fully agree that both Holder and Obama are huge racists, but that doesn't change the fact that in this one instance, he did the right thing.

For the record, the forfeitures were "lawful", a huge miscarriage of justice, but lawful, and civil forfeitures are still lawful, but a lot of the motivation to abuse this law have been eliminated by this new change in it.

Why do you think this is a good idea?

Your opinion, for what it is worth, is based on what facts? You are generally prolific on other matters. Care to expound on what makes them "huge racists"? Just because you "proclaim" it (as you normally do) doesn't make it true. Also to your way of thinking this is the only instance in which he did the right thing?

What you described is true except your overlooking the fact that many civil forfeitures done by local police were done under the Equitable Sharing program.  This program allowed locals to bypass state requirements, which many require seized funds to go to the state General or educational budgets. Instead locals got to keep 80 of the proceeds and there were little restrictions as to how the locals used the assets.  

I'm sorry, but Holder can be legitimately called several things based upon your ideology, but racist is not one one them.  He's offended people because he's pointed out the racial disparities in our criminal judicial system and has called the American people out in our ability to put our heads in the sand about race in this country. Many of us still don't accept that racism exists in this country. It's not the overt racism that many minority's faced decades ago, but more subtle and institutional

The only disparities with in the American CJS have to with capital. Capitalism is the foundation of this country's social structure, you are confusing reality with racism.  

but racebaiters in my book.

Of course racism still exists in this country, but Holder and Obama, not to mention the likes of Sharpton and Jackson, are setting back racism years instead of trying to move forward from it.

Racism, or racebaiting, whichever the case may be is what got these guys into power, and what keeps them there. It's no wonder they look for racism under every rock, and claim to find it in places where it doesn't even exist.

Maybe I see things a bit more clearly because I am NOT white, and I don't suffer from that common malady that afflicts so many white people, especially libs known as "White Guilt"  Having lived through real, overt, in your face racism, I know and recognize racism when I see it. I can also see when other people "of color" thrive on it and use it as a means to achieve power.

but I further agree it is a HUGE step in the right direction, and our other conversation about what a POS Holder is aside, he deserves props for this step that he has taken.

and for the record, I am hardly a member of the GOP. Partisans are idiots, regardless of which side of the aisle they are on.

This was a general statement to the rest of the board who might have gotten the wrong idea that I was a Republican, you are still TSTTT.

Another "old white guy" who has committed more racial gaffes than any Republican in modern history, but he gets a pass for his stupid, and racist remarks. Double standard indeed.

I wonder if your mind is going with age or were you always this stupid?

Remember the asshat R who interrupted Obama during his address to congress? He was instantly labeled a racist by many on the left. MSNBC went bonkers over it. What the guy did was immature and stupid, but racist?

Well at least he won the "overall" title. The P&R crown was wrested from him by fatgirl. fatgirl not only was/is at least as stupid, but he outposted him by a margin of about 5-1, so not even our grumpy little fungus even came close in the vote.

Also most of your comments are mostly conservative sided.

Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd.

Should we believe that you are a "minority" simply because you say you are? Does this claim of minority status somehow give validity to your racist antiiblack rants.

I love how racists conservatives always want to use the same examples every time.

In this case GA...you are delusional if you think either Holder or Obama are racist. And this highlights exactly why these two face the crap they face from a daily basis on the right. Any criticism of our society that involves race, they are immediately cast a racist.  If Obama gets angry, he's the angry black man. It he criticizes the cop the stops a black homeowner from going into his own home, he's anti law enforce and a fascist. GA, while I disagree with most of your politics, I believ you not be be a rabid partisan. In this case, I believe, you have bought into the far right narrative hook, line, and sinker.

she had a life that most white kids could only dream of, but still thinks "the man kept her down"

As for Jamie Foxx, I give him a pass, as he is supposed to say things like that. True story, I saw him in person doing stand up in a comedy club and there was a white guy who was using the same material as all the black guys, including the frequent use of the word nigger, and this white guy killed it. He was by far the best comedian of the night. So I guess "some" white guys are allowed to use that word. lol

Could you please point out one or two of them so we can have a discussion about them please?

I am fully in support of equal rights, having suffered through some very overt racism in my own life. What I don't believe in are "special rights" or race baiting for political gain.

What "non racist" attends a church run by a devout racist for 20 years and PRAISES him on numerous occasions?

If a person disagrees with Obama on anything that person is the one immediately branded a racist. Don't like Obama Care, RACIST, Don't like amnesty RACIST, Point out Reverend Wright and his decades of hate speech, RACIST.

I have a baseline question for you DA, Do you consider Al Sharpton, and or Jesse Jackson racists?

So to answer your question, fighting for racial justice is not being racist.  

I will make it easy for you, do you feel generally positive or negative towards these two individuals?

but at least you are consistent, and you did answer the question

I doubt that anyone else here would admit out loud that they support either Jackson or Sharpton as anyone not blinded by hatred or partisanship knows that neither Jackson or Sharpton has fought for anything but their own agenda for decades.

I don't have a problem with either one of them.

Since you went back to being a asshole.
I am not running or hiding from any clown on here.
We disagree and I don't care either.
This is my opinion and I stand by it!
 

That would imply that at some point I "stopped" being an asshole, and that simply is not true.

and I gave you credit for openly admitting that you support two of the biggest race baiters in this country that have done more to set back race relations in this country than the fucking KKK. Not many others here on this board would do so. Most of your fellow libs run from that pair of crooks faster than Repubs run from the likes of  Todd Akin.

I think you rather act like a fool, than listen to my points of view.