The devil is in the details. Who defines what "excessive" is? The lawyers will have a field day with that term.
Asset forfeiture, otherwise knowing as the state "legally" stealing your stuff and giving you a big raspberry at the same time, needs to be stopped. When I lived in New Mexico the cops were always doing this, and no crime needed to be proved. You just had to be suspected of one. Merely having cash over a certain amount is considered a crime in many places, and they will take it from you in a lot of states. Then it's your responsibility to prove that you didn't get it through some criminal activity, which sounds easy but it's not. Meanwhile the funds are gone, sometimes for years and years, sometimes forever. Well, not gone, you know somebody got it. In NM they spend it on cop equipment even if the charges are dropped!
A few cities have gone to a non cash bail system if the suspect shows no risk of fleeing, which is more better but it's selectively enforced. What it comes down to is, in this country, if you're white you get a small bail or none at all, and if you're darker you get a high bail or are denied bail. The fix is in from the very beginning.
It all reminds me of what Burt Reynolds said to someone whose daughter had been abused so badly by a powerful businessman that she died. The father expected justice (in a surprisingly good movie called Hustle)....."What country do you think you're living in Marty? You live in Guatemala with color TV!" Nowadays, you probably have a better chance of justice in Guatemala.
