Carol was a seven-year veteran officer with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office in New Jersey and had served on certain occasions with the county’s narcotics task force.
Institute for Justice
Carol Thomas
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New Jersey Forfeiture
Policing and Prosecuting For Profit: New Jersey Ex-Sheriff Fights Civil Forfeiture Abuse
New Jersey’s civil forfeiture law dangerously transforms law enforcement priorities from fair and impartial administration of justice to the pursuit of property and profit. New Jersey police departments and prosecutors’ offices are entitled to keep money and property confiscated through the state’s civil forfeiture law, thus giving them a direct financial stake in these forfeitures.…
