US Attorney General says police must have evidence before seizing cash, property

US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that local and state police are now banned from using a federal program that authorized them to seize cash and other property even without evidence of a crime.

Critics of the program have been saying it encouraged police to carry out unnecessary stops and seizures, since they could lead to proceeds that benefited their own departments.

The move is seen as the biggest check on police power in the U.S. in years.

Mary MacCarthy reports:

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