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Fourth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
It’s one of the most highly praised constitutional rights in the world. In reality, however, the Fourth Amendment has been severely diluted. A good example is related to seizure of assets—cash and property like vehicles and real estate—without warrants or criminal charges.

Inequitable Justice

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To combat abuse of heroin and prescription opiate pain killers there are several principles we need to keep in mind and actions we need to take.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio
May 16, 1967
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Imagine what would happen if people of different walks of life decided that they were done with the insanity of mass incarceration and the War on Drugs. Imagine if people proclaimed that they were tired of: » Criminalizing people unnecessarily. » Tough on crime laws that do nothing to improve safety. » Spending billions on mass incarceration while schools crumble. » Separating children from their parents. » Not meeting the needs of victims of crime. » Using prisons and jails to penalize people who simply need a job or treatment. » Paying into a system that contributes to unemployment and crime. Well, now you don’t have to imagine.

“The United States will never be able to prosecute or incarcerate its way to being a safer nation,” said last week U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, at a conference held by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

Michael Uth is a member of the ACLU of Ohio Board of Directors.