By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is creating safeguards to detect problems with the asset forfeiture program that he reinstated amid criticism from Democrats and Republicans.
In July, Sessions reversed a decision by former Attorney General Eric Holder to end the program, which had been mired in problems.
Sessions directed his deputy attorney general to hire a director to review the policy and identify and correct any problems that arise, the Washington Post reports.
“The asset forfeiture program has proven to be extremely valuable to law enforcement in our country, but it has received certain criticisms,” Sessions wrote in his memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
Holder ended the program two years ago to prevent state and local police from seizing cash and other property without warrants or criminal charges.
