It’s bizarre to me that civil asset forfeiture is presumptive. Where in the constitution does it say that government is allowed to steal your stuff and it’s only returned after you overwhelmingly provide that you are innocent.
Because when the government wants to do an end run around the constitution, the courts, the police and the politicians are happy to engage in extreme feats of twisted logic loops and insane arguments to make it happen.
Essentially the government claims (with the agreement of the Cowardly, Corrupt, Compromised and Complicit courts) that the "Property" as in your money or your stuff, is actually it's own entity and the "property" has been suspected of committing a crime and well property doesn't have any rights so they can do what they want and it's bizzaro backwards french style law now.
So to get it back, you have to prove to them that your "property" didn't commit a crime and was not part of a crime.
Oh and then you have to also prove that it's yours as well.
Oh and you have to pay a bond and put up a bunch of money and hire a lawyer and they are under no obligation to tell you how to get your stuff back or any time limits or give you any notice.
As you can imagine, proving you didn't commit a crime is a lot of work.
It's one of the reasons I detest many Uniform Hangers and freely call them bandits with badges.
But like many things, the "good people" BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES!
Oh we don't like someone doing drugs so let's give the government unlimited power to cut through the constitution and wage war on our fellow citizens.
Government pinky swears they will never abuse said power.
Nobody bothered understanding how well that worked out for Prohibition....
Much like all the stupid clamouring fools who begged for the 16th amendment because they wanted so badly to stick it to those evil 1% rich
Government pinky swore that it would only ever affect the "Evil Greedy 1% rich bastards"
How'd that work out for the country? To think once upon a time people didn't have to worry about the IRS at all.
But "good folks" never understand and are always happy to give the government ever more power, like with the stupid drunk driving hysteria where all kinds of civil liberties were simply squashed for good, or the terrorism hysteria where we agreed to live under total government control and surveillance forever.