WHEN DID 'TO SERVE & PROTECT' BECOME 'TO SEIZE & PROFIT?'

How police across the country are using civil asset forfeiture to seize people's houses, cars and cash to make money for their departments.

Leon and Mary Adams had been living in their Philadelphia home for nearly five decades. They were eating breakfast one morning last year when armed cops streamed out of a bunch of vans and said the couple had 10 minutes to grab their things and leave. Permanently. As in, Leon and Mary wouldn't be allowed to come back. The cops then seized the property so they could auction it off, all because the Adams' grandson allegedly did a few $20 marijuana deals on the porch.

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