"Ten San Diego police officers wearing bullet proof vests swarmed
Cheetahs strip club. They weren't looking for armed robbers or searching
for drugs. No, they were there for a card check, to make sure the
strippers at the club were properly licensed. They also took photos of
the women, lots of photos."
http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/24/brickbat-say-cheese
Meanwhile, the police in Hawaii are seeking legislation to allow them to have sex with prostitutes in order to better able them to entrap them.
"In what is proffered to be helpful in the combat of prostitution and
the underlying organized crime that often promotes this, members of the
Honolulu, Hawaii police department have requested legislative authority
to engage in sexual relations with prostitutes in order to further
infiltrate the illegal profession. ..."
Is it ever non-consensual activity when The Law needs to go undercover
to catch it? When The State needs to actively set itself up as the
victim, is there any doubt that it hasn't the delegated authority to
proclaim it a "crime" in the first place...?
"...'The procedures and conduct of the undercover officers are regulated
by department rules, which by nature have to be confidential,' Honolulu
Police Maj. Jerry Inouye recently told the House Judiciary Committee.
'Because if prostitution suspects, pimps and other people are privy to
that information, they’re going to know exactly how far the undercover
officer can and cannot go.' The bill aims to ratchet up penalties on
johns and pimps while leaving the punishment for selling sex as a petty
misdemeanor. ..."
Like I said, if you have to go to that much trouble -- in this case
keeping secrets about your /official procedures/ from your /employers/
(to which /I do not consent/, jbtw, so that should be that) -- to
impersonate a party to a voluntary contract, it should be a clue that
you're probably not gonna find a victim to press any charges. Indeed,
you've conceded that you don't /have/ one. And if you quit driving the
trade underground, then any /actual/ victims could find recourse through
the courts instead of through the current resolution by street violence,
which quite often /does/ have a victim.
And why is paying someone to have sex illegal only until you make a
movie out of it...?
"... Expert Derek Marsh says the exemption is 'antiquated at best' and
that police can easily do their jobs without it.'It doesn’t help your
case, and at worst you further traumatize someone. And do you think he
or she is going to trust a cop again?' asked Marsh ..."
What do you mean, "again"...?