Brickbat: Cornhusker Highway Robbery


A close-up of a Nebraska highway sign.

Nebraska has 93 counties. The Flatwater Free Press stories that one-third of the state’s civil forfeiture circumstances begin in simply one in every of them. The truth is, over the previous 5 years, Seward County collected some $7.5 million from civil forfeiture, greater than another county within the state, together with a lot bigger ones. The newspaper stories that the majority of these begin when a sheriff’s deputy stops a car on Interstate 80, often for a minor site visitors violation, and nearly all contain out-of-state drivers. Half the cash the county collects goes to a state fund for colleges. The remainder goes to a fund managed by the county lawyer, the sheriff, native police chiefs, and the Nebraska State Patrol.

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