Wish more people would simply call it what it is. If we can&#x27;t even do that, certainly we&#x27;ll never see an actual prosecution.<p>The name of a thing is important, and calling it exactly &#x27;grand theft auto, extortion, racketeering, and fabrication of evidence &#x2F; perjury&#x27; versus something like &#x27;civil asset forfeiture&#x27; or in this case, not even that, it&#x27;s a glorified falsified <i>parking ticket</i>!<p>I mean, how did this actually play out in court? &quot;So, Your Honor, you&#x27;re not going to believe what happened. I was going to drop my niece at the airport and these thugs pulled me out of the car, showed me a badge, impounded my car, and now want me to sign a document and pay them a stack of cash to get it back.&quot; Prosecutor, &quot;Actually, we employ 170 people to do this, and we&#x27;ve done it 21,000 times&quot;.<p>The article they quote saying it&#x27;s a corrupt money-making scheme for the city was an interesting read: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dnainfo.com&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;20140724&#x2F;long-island-city&#x2F;taxi-inspectors-say-theyre-pressured-make-illegal-cab-seizures" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dnainfo.com&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;20140724&#x2F;long-island-city&#x2F;ta...</a>