Did they stop it? Maybe in airports, maybe. The practice is still very much alive.
Or are you referring to broader law enforcement attempts to do consensual searches or civil asset forfeiture seizures, which are absolutely still a problem?
I guess my point is, there are still massive problems with the way policing happens in this country. But the Biden administration has ordered this particular problematic behavior to end, specifically in response to the incident brought up in this article.
So, are you just making vague generalizations, or do you have actual knowledge that this program has not ended?
And it only ends it until a future admin un-ends it. I could see both democrats and republicans deciding that they will allow this practice again.
I think it's much more correct to call the practice "paused" until we legislate it away. "Ending" implies a finality we cannot possibly be comfortable with.
But situations like this are nuanced and complex, and we are in a better position than we were a month ago, due to actions by the Biden administration.
It is easy, especially in cases of such long running problems like civil asset forfeiture, to get cynical and fall into the mentality that there's nothing that can be done. That's not the case. It is possible to improve things, through political and legal processes. Not always as easy as you would like. Frequently slower, and with regressions. But progress is possible, and it's worth keeping track of who makes that progress to inform future voting patterns.
Cynicism can be an effective tool to blunt efforts at reform.
But where it makes sense to do so, I will give credit.
This just feels like something that can be undone with a few minutes of trump's time. If it stays paused then great. And I'm sure halting the practice even for a few months does material good for people, I just can't give more credit when the Biden admin could do much more to halt it.