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What makes you think it's rare? The Institute for Justice says that:

> In 2018 alone, 42 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. departments of Justice and the Treasury forfeited over $3 billion.

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/pfp3content/exec...

That a lot of money. They also say:

> The low median value of most forfeitures is in line with media reports about forfeiture activity. For example, from 2012 to 2017, Cook County, Illinois, law enforcement conducted over 23,000 seizures totaling $150 million. The median value of these seizures was just $1,049, and approximately three-quarters of the seizures were of cash (most of the rest were vehicles). Many of these seizures, including most cash seizures of less than $100, were clustered in the poorest parts of Chicago.

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/pfp3content/forf...

If that's rare, what is common? Do you think anyone else in Cook County, Illinois stole anywhere near as much or as many times as the government did during that period using civil forfeiture alone?

You're technically right that you're statistically unlikely to face civil forfeiture in your lifetime, but you're also statistically unlikely to face burglary, mugging, or any other form of non-state theft (except maybe pick-pocketing), but that doesn't mean those things are particularly rare or not something we should worry about.