dml-at-umd

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   by dml-at-umd 3y ago

   States have various rules for finding the original owners. Unfortunately, they're mostly rather antiquated, like having to post in a local newspaper. The onus is really on the person who lost/had their property stolen to track dow
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   by dml-at-umd 3y ago

   Some 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.
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   by dml-at-umd 3y ago

   Thanks for the kind words! We looked for other police auction websites; the only other US-based one we found was GovDeals. We analyzed their police auctions and found they paled in comparison to PropertyRoom. As far as we can tell, Property
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   by dml-at-umd 3y ago

   I'm Dave Levin, one of the authors of this study. Happy to answer any questions!