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Minorities a prime target of Las Vegas police seizures

The majority of Las Vegas police’s civil asset forfeitures occur in low-income and minority neighborhoods. Two-thirds of forfeitures to the Metropolitan Police Department occurred in just 12 zip codes — zip codes in which the average poverty rate is 27 percent and the average nonwhite population is 42 percent. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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