| You mean where I can go buy a cop? | | | | crime or purchased with money that came from a |
| No. Police auctions are not where you go to buy a | | | | crime is a fair target. What makes police auctions |
| policeman! Many people do not realize that police | | | | better than some other types of auctions is because |
| agencies, including local police departments, county | | | | of how cheap you can get certain items. Many times, |
| sheriff departments, as well as state and federal law | | | | goods such as cars, especially abandoned ones, are |
| enforcement agencies end up with a lot of | | | | literally auctioned off for a couple hundred dollars. |
| confiscated, lost, or abandoned property. Police | | | | City police departments also conduct public bicycle |
| departments across America also collect all types of | | | | property auctions as well as abandoned vehicle |
| assets and periodically hold auctions for them to be | | | | auctions. They will also sell miscellaneous items (small |
| sold. Almost every state, as well as the U.S. federal | | | | electronics, computer equipment, household items, cell |
| government, have police seizure laws that empower a | | | | phones, automobile accessories and a whole slew of |
| law enforcement agency to seize these property | | | | other items). These auctions will be conducted on |
| assets that have either been used in the commission | | | | either the Internet and/or LIVE in person to interested |
| of a crime, or have been purchased with money that | | | | bidders. |
| was received through the commission of a crime. Not | | | | When most people think about police impound car |
| all items, though are seized. Sometimes items are | | | | auctions they believe those cars were once owned |
| acquired by police department because of being | | | | by a drug dealer or murderer, but that isn't always the |
| abandoned. Sometimes also, police surplus vehicles are | | | | case. A good number of the cars that you will hit upon |
| sold. | | | | at a police impound car auction are those which have |
| You might be asking yourself, "What types of things | | | | been confiscated because of non-payment of loans |
| can I get at a police auction?" The answer is anything | | | | and from businesses involved in fraud. A result of all |
| you can think of, and it has probably been seized or | | | | this is that many of the cars are nearly new or in |
| abandoned (or even surplused). Cars, jewelry, planes, | | | | incredibly good condition. |
| boats, furs, homes, anything that has been used in a | | | | |