David Gilkey once asked a pair of police officers a profound question: “What do you do with all the money you seize in drug busts?” One officer said, “we put in back into law enforcement training.” The other officer nodded. Gilkey, a Wichita youth advocate, then asked, “Why don’t you put that money back into […] The post After Kansas civil asset forfeiture reform, let’s funnel that money into communities it came from appeared first on Kansas Reflector.
The license plate reading system that is placed throughout the city at undisclosed locations has helped find kidnapped children, arrest murder suspects and recover stolen vehicles. But it comes at a cost to privacy.