Has your city become your partner? Here's how it starts. One day, the city shows up and says: "Hi partner. Here is how it's a gonna be from now on. Youse guys are gonna stick annudder charge on each tow but don't even think of callin it a tax, cuz that's a real problem for us. You collect it and give it to us. All of it. If anyone gives ya a hard time, just give us a call. We will send out some muscle to show da bum we mean business. Oh, and yous is gonna give us half of your storage fees, too. Cuz it looks to us like you are makin it hand over fist and we want our share. In return, we's gonna let you charge more for a tow and for the storage. Now, that's an offer ya can't refuse."
And you know, they are right! You can't refuse them. Because they DO have the muscle.