Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Vandalia: 1  Kaskaskia College (about 29 miles; Centralia, IL; Full-time enrollment: 3,867). 2  McKendree University (about 46 miles; Lebanon, IL; FT enrollment: 2,564). 3  Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (about 50 miles; Edwardsville, IL; FT enrollment: 11,933).
Senior Attorney. Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgetsâall without so much as charging you with a crime.ith civil forfeiture, your property is guilty until you prove it innocent. Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture chronicles how state and federal laws leave innocent property owners vulnerable to forfeiture abuse and encourage law enforcement to take property to boost their budgets.
Civil forfeiture in the United States, sometimes called civil judicial forfeiture, is a controversial legal process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.hile civil procedure, as opposed to criminal procedure, generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and property such as a gold crucifix, a pile of cash, a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime.