Guilty until proven innocent! Via the Institute for Justice: Under the legal doctrine of civil forfeiture, police can seize property tangentially linked to a crime, even if the property owner herself is innocent. As Isaiah Thompson reports in the Philadelphia City Paper, this is precisely what happened to Sandra Leino and her family: “Long before…

Dog “was aggressing him too much.” FILER, ID – A resident of Filer, Idaho called the police on Monday to complain that neighbor Rick Clubb’s dogs were outside without a leash. The caller may have gotten more than he bargained for. When Officer Tarek Hassani arrived at Rick Clubb’s home, he immediately encountered two barking…