Wages of Vice.

• Author: Lynch, Michael W.
• Position: Getting love might cost twice more in Detroit, Michigan - Brief Article

Motor City's working girls aren't the only people making a bundle off those looking for love in all the wrong places. According to the Detroit Free Press, Wayne County's 153 prosecutors are slated to divvy up $500,000 in raises that have been funded by the fines alleged Johns pay to get their cars out of impound.

Faced with a declining budget, newly minted Wayne County Prosecutor Michael Duggan put the county's police powers to work for him. He persuaded local politicians to allow him to use proceeds from forfeited and impounded cars to reward prosecutors. He then upped the impound fine on cars seized from Johns to $900--a $250 increase--and discontinued such...