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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 4030688" data-attributes="member: 36150">Let me preface everything by saying "I am not a police officer, nor make any claims that I understand the real-world justice system".If you wanted to go modern-esque on them, any seized items become the property of the arresting institution.  If it is suspected that any of the items were used in a criminal act, then they are seized as "evidence" and taken to a panel of experts (labs, CSI, whatever) to be examined.  As for personal effects, they are safely stored until the prisoner is released, at which time the items are returned to the arrestee(?).Now, if you watch shows like "The Shield" (which I love), these "dirty cops" plant/remove evidence, keep seized assets for themselves (drugs, money, weapons), and more often than not mete out their own brand of street justice.  Sound more like your typical PC? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That being said, perhaps your justice system in Sigil COULD offer up a "reward" for seizing particular assets - maybe offer a cash bonus in the form of a percent value of the total amount seized, but only IF the criminal is convicted.  Or, you could even go back to the old AD&D days and dole out a flat XP bonus/gp seized.  OR, you could keep track of the total gp value of stuff they seize and, based on how well they're doing, permit them to "spend" the money by "buying" magic items/resources from their employers.</blockquote>

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