In just about every vice unit in the US. For one, many cops don't believe vice (prostitution, drugs, gambling) should be illegal - they view them as personal morals where the perp is the only victim, not real criminal acts with real victims. It's hard for them to take vice seriously as a crime (which its not).
Cops are human, just like any of us. They have the same desires as we do. Some have desires for drugs, some for sex, some for gambling, some for all of the above. Some of these guys get into the vice units to feed their desires and addictions. In many cases they find they have currency that others don't and that is simply too easy to use - their badge. 35% of indy providers have been victims of police extortion - "Service me and I won't arrest you." When you work through the demographics you see that it takes a fair number of cops asking for freebies to reach this percentage.
The problem is, once a good cop uses his badge one time for a freebie, he's crossed the line. He's now a bad cop. The second time is easier and he hardly even thinks about it the third time. What seemed to him fairly innocent at the time (though in reality rape with his badge as the gun) has made him a bad cop. He no longer respects the oath he took when he became a cop and going over the line in other areas is just too easy.
I don't blame them for having the desires and I have no problem with a cop seeing a provider as a normal client. Vice laws though are the leading edge of much of the corruption in our police forces. US law enforcement is not the Talaban's committee for the enforcement of morals and vice, even though they act like it and the public may want them to be. Government has got to get out of the vice business. It's a loosing proposition.
This is the most sordid story I have read in a long time!
A vice cop gone bad, turned in by a high-dollar madam and his ex-prostitute wife. Members of an elite sheriff's unit running out of control. A personal trainer peddling designer drugs. An FBI agent kicked off the case. Political ambition colliding with unpleasant facts. And finally, days before the cop was to be tried, a top-level decision to pay him off and kill the case.
It could be a Hollywood screenplay. Instead, it's a King County reality.
The cop is George Daniel Ring, for 26 years a sheriff's deputy, most of them spent in the shadowy sex-for-money world. Dan Ring says he's just a normal "heterosexual guy." But he couldn't separate his work life from his sex life, and the consequences would embarrass the Sheriff's Office and enrage many of his former colleagues.
-- Modified on 8/1/2005 4:27:47 PM
wow, I betcha he has ties here in Salem. Our city gov't is soooo corrupt, I bet they are relatives.
he said part 2 makes part 1 look like a bed time sotry.
...and you'll see the same creepy bugs will run for cover. It gets so corrupt because it's a mean job and can't be taken seriously.
-- Modified on 8/1/2005 8:52:05 PM
several cops that did not have any balls. And lastly, a story of many more cops who did the right thing. Look into any police department and you will see the same stories played out to larger or smaller scales.
The guy walked away, but likeable people that do bad things in all job functions in life often walk away virtually untouched. Wish things were different, but human nature being what it is, people would rather not give the guy what he deserves.
Read the rest of the series, part 2 and part 3 before you finalize your judgement
Sheriff Reichert is now a Congressman. A REpublican of course.
Not only did the guy walk away, THEY PAID HIM!!!!
In just about every vice unit in the US. For one, many cops don't believe vice (prostitution, drugs, gambling) should be illegal - they view them as personal morals where the perp is the only victim, not real criminal acts with real victims. It's hard for them to take vice seriously as a crime (which its not).
Cops are human, just like any of us. They have the same desires as we do. Some have desires for drugs, some for sex, some for gambling, some for all of the above. Some of these guys get into the vice units to feed their desires and addictions. In many cases they find they have currency that others don't and that is simply too easy to use - their badge. 35% of indy providers have been victims of police extortion - "Service me and I won't arrest you." When you work through the demographics you see that it takes a fair number of cops asking for freebies to reach this percentage.
The problem is, once a good cop uses his badge one time for a freebie, he's crossed the line. He's now a bad cop. The second time is easier and he hardly even thinks about it the third time. What seemed to him fairly innocent at the time (though in reality rape with his badge as the gun) has made him a bad cop. He no longer respects the oath he took when he became a cop and going over the line in other areas is just too easy.
I don't blame them for having the desires and I have no problem with a cop seeing a provider as a normal client. Vice laws though are the leading edge of much of the corruption in our police forces. US law enforcement is not the Talaban's committee for the enforcement of morals and vice, even though they act like it and the public may want them to be. Government has got to get out of the vice business. It's a loosing proposition.
Wow, thanks for the area warning!! Phew, and I thought our profession was "interesting"!!! It does crack me up....and is sad at the same time!!
Film at 11.
lol