Excellent and timely post, about an issue that deserves exposure. In fact, everyone should know about this insidious initiative by the powers-that-be.
To realize that this is happening in the USA is rather shocking. (Although there are many who say it's not even surprising, given the developments in policing over the past few decades.)
Even one instance of this theft (euphemistically called "asset forfeiture") is disturbing, and should be enough to be a call to arms, or at least a loud clarion call to resist.
That it proceeds, with little exposure and little resistance, is unsettling and ominous.
Peace and Freedom.