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So wait, you are being paid by the state to seize private property, and then you sell it for profit?
by xkcd1963 3y ago
So wait, you are being paid by the state to seize private property, and then you sell it for profit?
- dicknuckle 3y agoWelcome to the Police. They don't serve and protect you and I, only people and businesses with big money.
- birdyrooster 3y agoDon't forget themselves, they protect themselves the most.
- dml-at-umd 3y agoSome states require that anything of value seized by the police has to be sold at public auction. I think the spirit is that it has to be made available to the public to avoid the state simply taking it for themselves, fwiw.
- krageon 3y agoBut the state did take it for themselves, and now they're selling it back. That's not "made available", that's fencing.
- yencabulator 3y agoYet, destroying all the items is worse. What other options does one have? I mean, yes there is a perverse incentive, but that's more for cash forfeiture without a crime, which is a real thing too in the US.. Generally auctions are considered the least-unfair way of disposing of property. Outside of forfeiture or lost property, in some causes a court can force shared-ownership property to be auctioned, to give it a "fresh start" without the problematic shared ownership. This also happens with hundreds-of-millions-of-dollar real estate.