When there are 50 ads a day showing up on BP for one city or mother it's only a matter of time before local LE decides to act.  There is nothing underground about buying sex on the Internet.  Answering a blind ad by a woman with no reviews, no website and no advertising history is asking for trouble.  I'll bet these poor bastards didn't even tin eye the photographs in the ads.  Never let your little head do the thinking for you.

This is clearly entrapment.  I hope someday someone will take this through the courts and see how it stands up.
I think I am going to sw;it;;ch to the libertarian party.

It might also be a good idea not to be specific as to the location of a meeting with a provider when posting a review.  Mentioning a town only waves a red flag.

The act of government agents or officials that induces a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit.

Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges when it is established that the agent or official originated the idea of the crime and induced the accused to engage in it. If the crime was promoted by a private person who has no connection to the government, it is not entrapment. A person induced by a friend to sell drugs has no legal excuse when police are informed that the person has agreed to make the sale.

The rationale underlying the defense is to deter law enforcement officers from engaging in reprehensible conduct by inducing persons not disposed to commit crimes to engage in criminal activity. In their efforts to obtain evidence and combat crime, however, officers are permitted to use some deception. For example, an officer may pretend to be a drug addict in order to apprehend a person suspected of selling drugs. On the other hand, an officer cannot use chicanery or Fraud to lure a person to commit a crime the person is not previously willing to commit. Generally, the defense is not available if the officer merely created an opportunity for the commission of the crime by a person already planning or willing to commit it.

The defense of entrapment frequently arises when crimes are committed against willing victims. It is likely to be asserted to counter such charges as illegal sales of liquor or narcotics, Bribery, Sex Offenses, and gambling. Persons who commit these types of crimes are most easily apprehended when officers disguise themselves as willing victims.

Most states require a defendant who raises the defense of entrapment to prove he or she did not have a previous intent to commit the crime. Courts determine whether a defendant had a predisposition to commit a crime by examining the person's behavior prior to the commission of the crime and by inquiring into the person's past criminal record if one exists. Usually, a predisposition is found if a defendant was previously involved in criminal conduct similar to the crime with which he or she is charged.

When an officer supplies an accused with a tool or a means necessary to commit the crime, the defense is not automatically established. Although this factor may be considered as evidence of entrapment, it is not conclusive. The more important determination is whether the official planted the criminal idea in the mind of the accused or whether the idea was already there.

Entrapment is not a constitutionally required defense, and, consequently, not all states are bound to provide it as a defense in their criminal codes. Some states have excluded it as a defense, reasoning that anyone who can be talked into a criminal act cannot be free from guilt.

I'd love to see local LE clean up their own act before going after the public.   I've heard from more than one escort that they have cops as regular clients.  Based on that I have to believe it is fairly widespread.

Well said but these things very rarely go as far as a trial. They are a deterrent and they are quite profitable! I am a hobbiest and therefore have no issue with pay for play but I was once totally entrapped in a "zero tolerance" neighborhood and had no intention or desire to engage the streetwalker that approached me with no invite to come over. I offered no money and never let this pig in my car and amazingly enough I merely asked for directions to leave the area as this was pre navigation. Long story short 56 people stung including people with no car to have a car date and some that actually needed an interpretor in court to plead out! $500 fine and cwof or trial was the offer and to spend days in court and thousands in lawyers versus getting rid of the nightmare made no sense so the profit is 50 time $500 and six idiots that fought the sting. It's about $$$ and $25000 in few hours was pretty profitable.

Entrapment like greed for lack of a better word ... Works

I don't mention cities or towns when I review but the fact is it's the hundreds of BP ads that that scroll by every day that raise interest of the local authorities.

That is so dangerous! I've noticed this the last couple years in New England. I havn't seen people's personal address posted when they are arrested in other ares of the USA. This really puts them in danger. Such sick puritan jerks to post home addresses, with a purpose to shame, humiliate and put in a state of fear those who just simply wanted to have a bit of fun. I really wish they would legalize prostitution like in England. This kind of 'outing' is so dangerous and only comes from a very hateful place in the puritan mind.

Not to mention it goes against the presumption of innocence!

The presumption of innocence and the assumption of privacy are two different things.  The story in the paper is reporting facts.  The men were arrested for soliciting sex.  That is a fact.  The story does not make assumption as to their guilt or innocence. The reader does that on his or her own.

This has been going on since the BPD started "Operation Squeeze" back in the 90's to clean up the old Combat Zone.  At the request of the local PD's the papers print the names and, quite often, addresses of guys who get busted for trying to buy sex. The idea of course is to deter others from trying to do the same. The sad fact is that it doesn't really matter if the guys are ultimately found guilty or innocent.  The damage is done when the arrest is made public.  LE knows this and takes full advantage of it.