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Article: N.D. Senate OKs Highway Patrol 'Slush Fund'

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BISMARCK, N.D. - One senator called it a "slush fund," albeit a good one. Another worried about whether law enforcement decisions would be influenced by the profit motive.

But the North Dakota Senate endorsed legislation to allow the Highway Patrol to keep up to $300,000 every two years from arrests its troopers make that result in seizures of cash or property.

State law already allows authorities to seize assets that they believe are connected to drug dealing, including money, property, vehicles, boats and other possessions. Cash and money from the sale of assets seized by the Highway Patrol go into the state's general treasury.

The bill would allow the patrol to benefit directly from ...

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