Data Sources
This page provides links or downloads for all the forfeiture data compiled for the fourth edition of Policing for Profit.
State Data
For the fourth edition, we collected forfeiture data from 43 states and the District of Columbia. (New Mexico and North Carolina reported having no state forfeitures, while we were unable to obtain data for Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, Ohio, and Vermont.) We compiled these data into spreadsheets and cleaned select variables used in the report. You can download an Excel file of these data for a particular state by selecting it from the map or typing it into the menu below. To download all states, click the “Select All” button.
These data cover forfeiture revenues, property types, and, where available, procedures for the period 2019 through 2023. To obtain data for the period 2000 through 2018, including expenditure data, please see the third edition of Policing for Profit here.
Note that the variables present in each state vary substantially. For more details about a given state’s data, please refer to the README file and codebook included with the download.
Choose a state
Federal Data
Revenue data from the U.S. Department of Justice can be found in its audited financial statements here. Additionally, the DOJ’s Consolidated Asset Tracking System contains property-level forfeiture data and can be found here.
Revenue data from the U.S. Department of Treasury can be found in its audited financial statements here. We did not obtain property-level data from the Treasury for this report. However, you can download older property-level data from the third edition of Policing for Profit, available here.
Data from the Internal Revenue Service primarily covering the period from 2010 through 2020 can be downloaded here. For more information about the IRS data, which were obtained through litigation, please refer to the README file included with the download.