I had an opportunity recently to do an interview with John Byrne of AMLRightSource on the use of criminal and civil asset forfeiture.  The interview (about 25 mins) appears on John’s blog.  This is the link.

The interview covers the purposes of forfeiture, how the forfeited property is used, the due process protections built in to the civil forfeiture process, and the criticism on the use of forfeited funds to fund the police.