Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones

Re:Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones by dml-at-umd on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @02:46PM (#35965966)

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

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Re:Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones by aidenn0 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:06PM (#35966217)

First of all, it's great that you were able to effect change here. It's a bit of a shame that that part wasn't mentioned in TFA until the last paragraph.

Are there lots of other companies that might be selling unwiped phones from civil forfeiture, or does PropertyRoom run most of the market?

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Re:Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones by dml-at-umd on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:26AM (#35974293)

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, PropertyRoom is the major player.

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