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acknowledged criticism of the policy, vowing to implement the order with, quote, care and professionalism. i want to bring in robert johnson, an attorney at the institute for justice. it s good to see you. thank you so much for joining me. let s talk about what the a.g. said. he said the forfeiture policy hits criminals where it hurts, until the wallet. your group, critics say that this practice is inherently abusive. how come? well, i think the key point to understand here is that these aren t criminals. in this country, nobody is a criminal until they are convicted of a crime. and we re talking about people who haven t been convicted of anything. they haven t even been charged and actually what the doj s own inspector general found in a recent report is that in most of these cases, they are taking cash and it s not even connected to a criminal investigation. so, in effect, what they re doing is they are taking money from people, taking property from people on the suspicion that the