Current Events > civil asset forfeiture is racist AND sexist btw

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2745000

We exploit local deficits and state-level differences in police revenue retention from civil asset forfeitures to estimate how incentives to raise revenue influence policing. In a national sample, we find that local fine and forfeiture revenue increases at a faster rate with drug arrests than arrests for violent crimes. Revenues also increase at a faster rate with black and Hispanic drug arrests than white drug arrests. Concomitant with higher rates of revenue generation, we find that black and Hispanic drug, DUI, and prostitution arrests, and associated property seizures, increase with local deficits when institutions allow officials to more easily retain revenues from forfeited property. White drug and DUI arrests are insensitive to these institutions. We do, however, observe comparable increases in white prostitution arrests. Our results show how revenue-driven law enforcement can distort police behavior.

interestingly, if you allow cops to make money by taking shit from people during arrests, they will arrest more black and brown people and take more of their stuff
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For the white prostitution, are we assuming these arrests are of the clients or the sellers?
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Anteaterking posted...

For the white prostitution, are we assuming these arrests are of the clients or the sellers?

i'd assume sellers, who are forfeiting properties that are being used in the commission of a crime (i.e. turning an apt into a brothel)

Aw, will somebody please think of the poor criminals
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to protect themselves, black and hispanic people could try not selling drugs

win win