Criminal justice

Guilty Property, Innocent Owner: The Quiet Machinery of Civil Forfeiture

There is a genre of court case with names that read like absurdist theater: United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency . State v. One 1990 Toyota . The defendant in these cases is…

MHB Admin · June 8, 2026

Criminal justice

The Biggest Property Crime Nobody Calls Crime

The media obsesses over shoplifting while the far larger theft — employers stealing wages from workers — goes uncounted, unpunished, and unnamed as crime.

MHB Admin · June 4, 2026