Photo: David Handschuh/ALM NYPD Seizes People's Money. What Does It Do With the Amount It Keeps?
Until recent years, police disposition of seized property has been seen as a black hole, at least outside the NYPD. In 2017, the City Council passed a disclosure law requiring the NYPD to keep detailed figures on what kinds of property it had seized in the arrest process.
August 09, 2021 at 10:00 AM
5 minute read
When people are arrested, they often surrender the property on their person to the police, as part of the arrest process. Since they will soon be taken to a police precinct or courthouse, removing property from their person, if temporary, seems reasonable, and not necessarily mysterious.
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