What Is Civil Asset Forfeiture? with Professor Saleema Snow

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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If you’re a close listener of Getting Curious, you’ll know that today’s conversation with Professor Saleema Snow, all about the practice known as civil asset forfeiture, is a long time coming. Civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to seize and often keep any property they suspect is involved in a crime. Jonathan wants to learn more about this practice: how deep its roots are, how it came to exist across the United States, what it reveals about discriminatory policing, and what it would look like to dismantle this system. Professor Snow is a Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law where she teaches appellate advocacy and critical race theory. Her scholarship focuses on religious profiling, poverty law, and the intersection of poverty, gender, and access to justice. You can follow Professor Snow on Twitter @SaleemaSnow. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venus, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation
0:05.6	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode,
0:11.1	I'm joined by Professor Selima Snow, where I ask her, what is civil asset forfeiture?
0:17.3	Professor Selima Snow is a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia's
0:22.0	David A. Clark School of Law. She's also an elected member of the DC Bar Board of Governors,
0:27.9	and the elected president of the National Association of Muscle Moires. Let's get started.
0:34.8	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Venus. I'm very excited for this week's episode,
0:39.4	and this is an episode that we've wanted to talk about for a very long time, but we needed to find
0:45.1	the perfect guest to talk about it, and we did. So welcome to this week's episode, Professor
0:50.6	Selima Snow. She is the professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia,
0:56.0	and focuses on religious profiling, poverty law, and the intersection of poverty, gender, and
1:02.1	access to justice. And ultimately, the question that we're asking today is, what is civil asset
1:08.7	forfeiture? And is it legal government sanctioned theft? So welcome, first, second, I don't know if
1:15.9	anyone heard that you got excited before we started recording, but not I'm going to do it to you.
1:20.2	You, the colors that you are giving us, the smile, the necklace, the texture, these pinks,
1:24.9	these yellows. I'm so, well, I'm not actually upset, but I wish that people listening to this
1:29.2	could see how stunning you are. So Professor Snow, thank you so much for coming to talk to us today.
1:33.9	We really appreciate it. So this is one time I do appreciate being objectified. So thank you.
1:38.4	I appreciate it. Oh my gosh. I am trying to do this other thing where I don't compliment my guests
1:43.3	on their looks, because I'm trying to be more professional, but sometimes if the look is just too
1:48.0	strong, I can't help it. Coming from Jonathan Venus, I will definitely take it. So thank you. I
1:52.8	appreciate that. So interesting that you say theft, because I, and from trying to keep this as
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