

The cops won’t even bother with civil forfeiture. There’s a court case (a shitty one, more of a hearing, but it’s there) involved in that and the prosecutors will roll their eyes for $200. They’ll just put it in an evidence locker, put up a notice in a newspaper that no one will ever see, then 30 days later say that no one claimed it and then they pocket it.
As someone who is in the medical field, I am so sorry when I do that, but it is so much fun. You get to please a colleague, get intrigued and fascinated in a pair, and tell the patient that whatever their problem was is now known! Most of the time it also means you can actually start to help the patient, which is always nice, rather than doing more investigations.