Here at Radical Personal Finance over the years, I've tried to keep the whining and the complaining to a minimum.

I think I used to do more of it than I do today, but I've tried to keep it to a minimum because I think that's a better way to live.

And let's focus on useful things where we can create good solutions and not whine and complain.

But if we are going to whine and complain, I think we should also be honest enough to acknowledge when things actually get better.

When things actually get improved, actually get fixed.

And there are two stories that have improved over the recent times.

One of them more recent, the other a while ago.

I'm going to cover the one that is more recent.

And that story has to do with this Reuters headline from November 21, 2024.

Headline, U.S. suspends controversial asset forfeiture program targeting airline travelers.

The U.S. Deputy Attorney General has suspended a controversial civil asset forfeiture program

by the Drug Enforcement Agency, excuse me, drug enforcement administration,

that targeted unsuspecting airline passengers and subjected them to potentially unlawful seizures of cash from their bags.

The Justice Department's Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, announced the suspension of the

DEA's program by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in a new report released on Thursday

that raised grave concerns about the program and questioned whether some of the searches were conducted legally.

Quote, the DEA was not complying with its own policy on consensual encounters conducted at mass transportation facilities,

resulting in personnel creating potentially significant operational and legal risks.

Horowitz wrote in a memo to Monaco and Anne Milgram,

the DEA administrator. Civil asset forfeiture has long been a controversial program that critics

argue infringes on people's constitutional rights against unlawful search and seizure. It allows

police to search and seize property from people who may be suspected of a crime,

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