>One incentive was the availability of federal funds >earmarked for sex predator stings. Another factor:
>asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize
>the property of people who are arrested even if they aren't convicted.
Whenever arresting people becomes a big earning opportunity, problems are sure to follow. Profit-oriented policing (mainly from traffic enforcement) was one of the grievances that fueled the Ferguson protests/riots.
