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I agree that it would be nice to have more data. It might be hard to get "big picture" data for this. I would imagine that police deptments are not incentivized to publish details in a convenient, highly visible, summarized form.

Forbes says $1250 was avg. seized property value in MN.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/09/12/a...

This link claims that the avg. cash seizure amount in Phillidelphia from 2010 to present was $550:

http://ij.org/action-post/seize-first-ask-questions-later-ph...

These hardly sound like the sort "untouchable" organized crime cases that these programs were touted to address.