What's your point? How many cops get speeding tickets? Did you know that technically, it's just as illegal for them to casually run red lights in their squad cars as it is for you to? Shall we do away with red lights?

My point isn't that asset forfeiture is invariably defensible. It is obviously abused. My point is that it's being built up into a bogeyman. This perspective, perversely, robs people of their ability to defend themselves against it.

My point is that once local politics - remember it isn't cops that seize property it's DAs - kicks in then laws which are only for use against terrorists/makejor drugs dealers/organised crime can be used against ordinary people.

And given the population sizes of terrorists/drug dealers/etc compared to ordinary people - they are almsot always used against ordinary people

Cite evidence for that last sentence. It is an extraordinary claim: that law enforcement is in fact a massive criminal conspiracy used to defraud ordinary people of their lawful property.

He didn't make that claim. He claimed that the asset forfeiture laws are almost always used against "ordinary people," whom he distinguishes from "drug dealers/terrorists/etc."

In the UK 'Regulatory Investigative Powers' RIP was introduced to catch terrorists and international drug dealers. It allows government to get pretty much unlimited snooping ability on phones, web visits, cell phone location etc.

Within a year the majority of RIP requests were from local city councils famously investigating cases of dog crap and people giving a false address to get kids into better schools.

That is certainly an interesting and uncited fact, but it hardly qualifies as evidence that forfeiture laws are almost always used against ordinary people.