I was reading Amy Alkon’s blog and I found this very interesting. I was wondering if this could ever happen around here?

Pimp My Rights
Whore your way to a new car! Sorry, before you get too excited, only police officers need apply.
These days, the LAPD is not just jailing men for soliciting prostitution (which, in my book, shouldn't be a crime). The mere suspicion of soliciting a prostitute allows the cops to seize your car -- under a December 2002 ordinance allowing the municipally-sponsored theft.
That's right...you don't even have to be convicted -- simply suspected:
That accusation can be based on the vaguest of exchanges with the "trick task force" member.
"You just know," a 38-year-old officer identified only as Heather told the Los Angeles Daily News. "You look. You see. You smell it."
Great. That's how I like my rights -- dependent on "Heather's" hair-trigger, nasal-twitch intuition. The story continues:
Once seized, vehicles are held by the city until a civil hearing is held. In this hearing, the traditional rules of evidence and burden of proof do not apply. Instead, the city only needs to prove its case with a "preponderance of the evidence," not establish its case "beyond a reasonable doubt," in order to keep the car. The city attorney then will offer to sell back the car to its owner through a settlement offer. If the settlement is not accepted, the city will auction the car and keep the proceeds. The Los Angeles Police Department plans operate its car seizure sting at least once a month through October.
An LA Daily News article by Susan Abrams says more than 500 cars have been impounded since the city attorney initiated the program in 2003:
The city has made $325,000 in buybacks, though the city attorney's office emphasizes that the program is meant to deter solicitation, not earn money.
Even with the auto seizure program, even as solicitations occur on the Internet or over cell phones, Heather says there are still men who would rather pick up women on the street.
Only twice has she worked a task force when she was unsuccessful. Some officers joke about those moments, of the times when a john offers only $15, Heather said.
"Sometimes you feel a little self-conscious walking back and forth," she said. "It's a tad bit hard on the ego."
And her husband won't watch her work on a task force, even though she's invited him.
"He says, 'No, I don't want to know'," she says.
Heather became a police officer 11 years ago. She grew up in the Valley and had worked as a waitress for eight years. When she attended a seminar and listened to a female LAPD officer talk about the job, she just about signed up on the spot.
I would say prostitution is a much more honest job than Heather's, wouldn't you? It's your body. Why shouldn't it be legal to sell it if you want to? Sell sex. Sell your organs. Why should the state get to regulate you as commerce?
P.S. Rocky Delgadillo is the city attorney, LA residents, and was when the ordinance was enacted. He ran unopposed in 2005. If you're for personal freedom and respect for civil rights, you should probably see to it that he doesn't have your vote next time around -- and that there's somebody around to oppose him in 2009.
In the mean time, as long as this Kelo-for-cars ordinance is in place, have your hookers delivered if you'd like to avoid an unexpected need for new transporation.