The New York City Police Department’s changing excuses for not turning over an accounting of the amount of property seized from arrestees “just do not make sense,” a Manhattan judge said in denying the department’s motion to dismiss an open records suit.
The suit alleges that police failed to comply with The Bronx Defenders’ 2014 request for an accounting of seized property and money and records related to its seizure policies. The sale of unclaimed property amounted to $7 million of the NYPD’s budget in its 2015 fiscal year, according to a report to the New York City Council.
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