@edg @edg It is one thing to seize cash at a meth house, but taking cars, planes, bank accounts...good grief.
Attorneys representing people who are accused of dealing drugs, running a chop shop, etc...have had their attorney's fees confiscated, as fruit of the poisonous tree.

Seizure of assets by police agencies is rightfully under attack. The process of civil asset forfeiture has been outrageously abused and was recently ruled on by the Supreme Court. Hopefully, this evil practice will soon be ended altogether. Adding schools to the list of beneficiaries of the funding reduces the egregiousness not one whit.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that state and local governments are not exempt from the Constitutional prohibition against imposing “excessive fines” on citizens, significantly constraining the ability of law enforcement to seize the property of criminal suspects.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for eight of the nine justices, argued that state and local governments unconstrained by the Eighth Amendment’s excessive-fines clause are likely to abuse their power.

“Increasingly, our justice system has come to rely on fines, fees, and forfeitures to fund law-enforcement agencies rather than having to answer to elected officials for their budgets,” Scott Bullock, the president and general counsel of the Institute for Justice, said in a Wednesday statement. “This is not just an ominous trend; it is a dangerous one. We are grateful that the U.S. Supreme Court established that the U.S. Constitution secures meaningful protections for private property and limits the government’s ability to turn law enforcement into revenue generators.”

Reference: SCOTUS Cracks Down on Civil Asset Forfeiture

@Sonny Boy

If alternative funding for schools is arranged, local and state taxes are typically cut by the equivalent amount. If you need proof, study what has happened with all the money supposedly generated for schools by selling lottery tickets. Here's an article about it: Does Powerball really fund education?

I appreciate the helpful comments and the encouragement. I will be contacting some local law schools, my city rep and I'm checking out those websites.

For those who expressed concerned about the evils of asset seizure in its current incarnation, I would urge you to put your energy into changing that. I agree with you and I will support your efforts. Until we succeed in getting Law Enforcement to honor our constitutional rights, we might as well see that low income schools benefit. Maybe having to share their 'plunder' might be a disincentive for them to cavalierly seize private possessions.