Governmental budgets are routinely cut in order to balance them. In doing so, drug enforcement often does not receive the funding needed to combat drug activity. Because of this, agencies rely heavily on asset forfeiture. Do you think this reasoning causes officers to lose their objectivity? Are the officers forced to focus on funding their operations or are they truly able to focus on combating drug and criminal activity? Support your answer. Please cite at least two (2) separate references.
What was the legal basis for treating people as property? What were some of the major legal hurdles presented by treating human beings as legal property? How did African Americans resist and make life difficult for slave-owners?