Yeah that's the conundrum, you can't really report the police to the police, you have to go to the local media, of you get lucky enough it gets picked up by a major outlet and you get a leg to stand on leverage wise, like this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2021/09/13/lawsuit-texas-cops-use-cut-and-paste-allegations-to-seize-couples-life-savings/

But not every story makes it national, so a lot of people are just forced to eat it, and even when you do make it national the tactic has been to bounce you from court to court refusing to make a ruling. Hell tyson timbs had to take his lawsuit to the Supreme Court and just got his truck back, a $45000 land rover that he bought with the inheritance he got when his dad died, But yeah a few months later he fell off the wagon, HARD! And at his lowest moment, for 225 dollars worth of drugs they threw him in jail gave him probabtion and house arrest, a 1200 dollar fine, but they also stole his brand new truck, the one he refused to sell at his worst because it was all he had left of his dad, and he like had a receipt, with banking transfers, ya know the kind you would get on a purchase like that because you don't want beef with the irs, and they just turned around and said nope, trucks guilty. That started in 2012