As others have said, it's largely all "junk", at least as far as value per record is concerned. So all they have is some stuff that _might_ have been stolen, w

As others have said, it's largely all "junk", at least as far as value per record is concerned. So all they have is some stuff that _might_ have been stolen, with no knowledge of where they came from or who put them there. So what are they to do? Put a huge stack of records in the evidence locker with no crime actually attached to them (just vicinity to another crime)? Could suck if somehow someone else could identify them and want them that was also a victim of theft, but it really would just be stashing them and hoping by rare chance someone stumbles into the lost and found. Personally I'd rather the stack of stuff sitting in the guarded, expensive to maintain evidence locker is stuff actually tagged to a crime and relevant to solving it