Quote Originally Posted by Stellar
Too often overlooked.

I wonder if there are any statistics spelling out how much revenue is earned through selling the possessions of druglords, and even your everyday regular John, when they go down for major drug offenses. Not to mention the fines they have to pay on top of sentencing, which is sometimes not even compensated by forfieture. A lot of people going to prison for serious drug offenses that have their stuff auctioned off are paying for a huge chunk of however many years they end up there.

I'm not very informed when it comes to forfeiture, though. But I can imagine that it, itself, is also a multibillion dollar industry.
There are entire police drug task forces within several states that opperate solely through seizure assets. If they don't bust people for drugs and sell off all the siezed items then they have no funding. Talk about your breeding grounds for corruption.