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Michigan has a law on the books that grants the police immunity¹ from prosecution² if they've had sex with a prostitute during an investigation³.

Michigan is the only remaining state we know of which still grants that immunity, but that might chanBridgette Carr, a professor and director of the Human Trafficking Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, is working with Rep. Gary Glenn, R-Midland, to draft a bill that would get rid of that exemption⁴.

Carr first became aware of the exemption a couple of years ago, when Hawaii was "phasing out their exemption."

"And a number of folks in the human trafficking community were upset that Michigan retained the exemption," she said.

That's because it maintained the possibility for people to have sex with human trafficking victims in the commercial sex industry without facing punishment.

Carr said she does not believe the law was created with any bad intent.

"The reason the law is structured the way it is is because of the way the prostitution laws are written," she said. "So for law enforcement to have any power to investigate with immunity, they got all the power. And no one thought to go back and carve out a prohibition⁵ against sexual intercourse⁶."

Some police officers know about this exemption and some don't, Carr said. But none of the officers or prosecutors⁸ she talked to said they take advantage of the exemption.

"No police officer or prosecutor⁷ that I spoke⁹ with said, ‘That's a tool that we use in our training or that's what we expect our law enforcement to be doing,'" she said.

As officers aren't aware of this law and as they aren't taught to use it, some ask why it'd be useful to change the law at all.

"What I do know from my own clients is that people who either say they are cops, who are cops or who are impersonating cops, know about this exemption and threaten my clients with it sometimes," she said. "It's not rampant¹⁰, but it happens. And I think it says something about us as a community that we would allow this type of exemption for law enforcement, whether it's used very often or not."

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1 immunity   

n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权

参考例句：

• The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
• He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。

2 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

3 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

4 exemption   

n.豁免，免税额，免除

参考例句：

• You may be able to apply for exemption from local taxes.你可能符合资格申请免除地方税。
• These goods are subject to exemption from tax.这些货物可以免税。

5 prohibition   

n.禁止；禁令，禁律

参考例句：

• The prohibition against drunken driving will save many lives.禁止酒后开车将会减少许多死亡事故。
• They voted in favour of the prohibition of smoking in public areas.他们投票赞成禁止在公共场所吸烟。

6 intercourse   

n.性交；交流，交往，交际

参考例句：

• The magazine becomes a cultural medium of intercourse between the two peoples.该杂志成为两民族间文化交流的媒介。
• There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。

7 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

8 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 rampant   

adj.(植物)蔓生的；狂暴的，无约束的

参考例句：

• Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
• You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。