While not agreeing with all your comments, you do make some good points. See this from the ABQ Journal:
Pimps, johns and prostitutes may soon face more than just an arrest when caught by Albuquerque police.
An ordinance approved by city councilors late Monday would allow officers to seize any motor vehicle used in a prostitution crime. It was sponsored jointly by councilors Roxanna Meyers and Ken Sanchez.
“This is a citywide problem,” Meyers said, pointing out sting operations conducted throughout Albuquerque.
http://www.abqjournal.com/294605/news/abq-news/abq-council-approves-going-after-johns-cars.htm
And this from Saint Louis: St. Louis Man Arrested for Video Taping at Public Train Station
CedarDave,
Prostitution in ABQ is, well, everywhere but Central is of course almost embarrassing.
BUT, once again the State is confiscating items of value and benefiting from said items. This seems likes taxing beer and cigarettes.
Is this the answer to ABQ prostitution problem? No! This is putting a kids Sesame Street band-aid on a cut to the juggler.
Until and unless the problem of illegals are ended drugs and prostitution will continue. Mexican drugs and the smuggling of illegals is propagated by free and easy access to rent controlled apartments, free healthcare, free education. So ABQ burns and the city council wants to confiscate cars. Whatever.
Cedar Dave
This is an excerpt from the lawsuit: DAVID ECKERT, Plaintiff, v.
CV THE CITY OF DEMING, DEMING POLICE OFFICERS BOBBY OROSCO, ROBERT CHAVEZ, and OFFICER HERNANDEZ; HILDAGO COUNTY; HILDAGO COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICERS DAVID ARREDONDO, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, and PATRICK GREEN; DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DANIEL DOUGHERTY, GILA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, ROBERT WILCOX, M.D., and, OKAY H. ODOCHA, M.D.
“203. The municipal Defendants have trained their officers and have implemented a policy of transforming ordinary traffic stops into invasive searches and seizures, flouting constitutional requirements related to private property and liberty interests.”
The attorney is correct in this case, but all over this country “routine” traffic stops are transformed into mockeries of the 4th amendment.
This is why Police and cities must be opposed, even at the risk of letting prostitution run rampant.