Detroit Escorts: State lawmakers work on bills to limit property seizures by police
February 17, 2010 at 11:02 am | In Detroit escorts | No Comments… Under the current ordinance, there doesn’t have to be a crime proven in order to seize someone’s vehicle,” said Walter Epps, a former Wayne County sheriff’s lieutenant who ran the department’s Morality Squad for more than four years. “But I feel if we’re going to take someone’s car, the least we should do is to charge them with the crime or issue them a ticket.”
In one case, The News found that officers from the Morality Squad seized a Southgate man’s vehicle after he talked to a decoy prostitute — even though the undercover officer admitted in her written report that the man hadn’t solicited her during their brief conversation.
In another case, a Red Cross employee’s vehicle was seized by the Morality Squad after she picked up a co-worker at a Detroit bank. Because the vehicle owner’s co-worker had stood on a street corner making eye contact with passing motorists while waiting for her ride, police determined she was acting like a prostitute, even though she never was charged for soliciting.
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