Philadelphia police seized their property. Most were never convicted of a crime. Most never got their stuff back.

Late one evening in 2014, Nassir Geiger found himself staring into the barrels of two handguns held by Philadelphia police officers. They had seen him pause his Buick LeSabre in a McDonald's parking lot to say hi to an acquaintance, who had been arrested shortly before for possessing 0.4 grams of cocaine. 

When the officers searched Geiger's car, they found no evidence of drugs. They seized his car and the $580 in his pockets anyway. 

After a night in jail, Geiger was let out with a receipt for $465. He was told the car was being kept as evidence. For months he had to take the bus or borrow his mom's car to get to his job as a city sanitation worker and take care of his daughter.