To me, the point is for the most part this is a victimless crime, two adults meeting for fun at a price.
Because of that  the writer feels that the police should focus more on crimes such as robbery, theft, break-ins and such.  To bring in the CEO's position is not fair. To do that you might as well shine the light on everyone's job here on the board including your own and and how we should be spending our money otherwise (legally). Just my two cents.  This is a bad time so let's keep things in perspective. Play safe!

..."Because unfortunately, this type of stuff brings in the very same things you mentioned into the neighborhood. I know you would like to think that everything is hunky dory in this little world, but it isn't. Pimps, violence, drugs, rapes, murders, exploitation of minors, etc - all follow when it gets down to a neighborhood level."...


If "it" was decriminalized, it would attract less predatory elements and crime.
It's because it's illegal that violence - rape, murders  - is more likely to occur.
Report it and go to Jail !

What is exploitation of 'minors' really ?
Maybe this industry would have less "minors - 18 maybe - being "exploited " if this buss wasn't criminalized. They would be employees' or contractors - it would be legal work.
If there really was some sort of "real exploitation of minors" going on then the person being exploited or other employee's could report it with out possibly facing jail themselves.

Btw, The exploitation of minors is not specific to this industry, but it may be overlooked if it's a legal enterprise  that hires very young workers as slave labor - underpaid and over worked .  

What is a 'pimp' really?
Is it someone who may helps manage a persons business affairs for a fee?
So if it's legal work then it's your boss. If illegal work then it's your pimp.

I'm aware that there are some "pimps" that may not simply be the boss in this situation.
They may use the illegal categorization  of this work to commit real abuses and other crimes on their
"employee."  If the worker wasn't terrified of the law and if the business was legal , the other abuses would be less likely, in my opinion.  

Drugs? This buss and drugs according to the media go hand in hand - bull shit -

It's less likely to be the women in this industry using or abusing drugs.
Most women choose to stay alert - self preservation is key.
I would imagine if drugs are really found they would likely come from the buyer of services not the other way around. Legalize the buss and maybe the few clients who dabble at home alone without consequence would think twice before bringing that illegal element into a decriminalized business.

People in many industries abuse drugs.
It's just that these people who abuse drugs and who work in legal industries are less likely being monitored at work - so linking drugs to work is unlikely in their situation.

No, it's called the broken LOGIC theory.

Decriminalization does reduce crime, because it makes a once illegal act, legal. Criminalization creates higher crime because it makes a legal act, illegal. Neither has any significant effect on the number of people who will choose to partake in the act whether criminal or non-criminal. But this is too obvious to require further elaboration. The point here would be that quoting numbers and stats means jack shit.

Stats are numbers on paper that clueless policy makers think translate into actual people. They are created by people who want to manipulate facts to support their own argument. Show me a stat that says 85% of any given people are one way, and I’ll show you another that says it’s a load of crap. And most likely, both would be wrong. People don’t live on stat sheets, they live in the real world, and they don’t worry about what stat sheet their lives are popping up on. That’s a fact – or at least I say it is – which makes it just as relevant as any “fact” you’ve stated.    

Criminals choose to commit crimes because…they like jail? No. Why do people choose to become criminals then? They don’t. PEOPLE do what they do and lawmakers can make them criminals by making their activities illegal, or not. Because I see prostitutes I am a criminal. If you legalize it tomorrow, then I am no longer a criminal. How is this indicative of my suitability to be a free citizen? It isn’t, it’s nothing but a numbers game.

Murder, rape, theft – these things are easily defined as criminal because they are all acts which take away the civil liberties of another person guaranteed to us by the constitution. But how do you have a crime without a victim? Who would be the victim in this case, morality? Whose morality? Yours or mine? Answer – whoever has the biggest campaign fund – that’s whose.  

War on drugs – war on prostitution – this is our own government declaring war on US – its own citizens.    

Riddle me this – how has making prostitution an illegal act, benefitted America? (Jeopardy music begins to play)………..I can think of several ways decriminalizing it could benefit us, but I have yet to hear one plausible answer as to how keeping it illegal does our society any good.

Many things get bought and sold in this country without anyone getting hurt. Why are drugs and sex the glaring exceptions? Well, because they have one thing in common – they are illegal. And what happens when you make something illegal, does it make it go away? No. It just makes it go underground – it creates a sub culture. And people predisposed to criminal activities will flock to them to capitalize on the black market that our government has created for these things BY making them illegal, simply because legitimate business people will avoid them due to the criminal stigma, leaving the door wide open for whoever holds the biggest gun.    

Remember prohibition? You’ve no doubt heard of it. It gave rise to some of the most notoriously violent criminals our nation has ever known. But how many people did it stop from drinking? My grandpa told me the answer is zero. But he didn't get that off a stat sheet, he lived through it, so maybe I should seek out a stat sheet, cause stat sheets know everything...

Ask yourself why the douche bag standing on the corner of Broadway and Lyndale with his pants hanging down to his knees is standing there with crack pills hidden in his shoes. Why isn’t he out there selling flowers or candy? Why not tobacco or alcohol? I’ll tell you why, because those things are legal, and are mass produced, taxed, shipped and distributed in bulk, at a price that he can’t compete with. But crack…you can’t buy that shit at Walmart, now can you? Nope, you gotta go see him, or someone like him.

If we legalize crack, will he still be out there selling it on the corner, holding entire neighborhoods hostage via fear…Glock .45 tucked in his waist? Not for long, because someone with a lot more money and brains than him will be selling at half his price and at twice the quality in a mortar and brick building on the same block. Bye bye asshole, go get a job or starve.

And don’t give me that useless argument about ‘look what crack, meth, heroin etc. does to people.’ It’s bad shit, no arguing there. But there are dozens of man made substances that can do as much damage or worse that you can obtain legally, so there is no point in making that argument. Yeah, I’ve seen what crack does to people. I’ve also seen what Percocet does. It’s really hard to tell who will drop dead first, the crack addict or the pain killer addict, trust me. Bottom line - people who want to get high, WILL get high, come hell or high water.

So our solution is to lock them up? Because that is all criminalization does – subsidize the billion dollar people-warehousing industry better known as prison. Makes DA’s look good with their flashy numbers, look how many people I’ve locked up, hooray for me. God forbid we stop putting them in jail and take those billions of dollars and put them towards treatment and prevention.        

Now throw prostitution into the same argument. Men who want to fuck a woman who doesn't sleep through it, WILL, come hell or high water. And women who can stomach the social stigma, (and the smelly fat grease balls who often come through their door), who realize that the gold mine between their legs can get them further ahead financially than a masters degree, will continue to profit from it.

You can talk about all the underlying issues that lead women into the profession, and those issues are noted, sad…and tragic… but you have no point to make when it comes time to explain how arresting them will help with those issues. Uncle Sam is the biggest pimp out here and here he exploits them more than anyone. “Yeah, that’s right bitch, I said you DON’T sell that pussy, or I’ll send my fucking blue-suited goons after you. Then I’ll humiliate and permanently stigmatize you by making it public record that you’re a whore. Yeah, because that’s MY pussy, not yours.”

So what are you gonna say now? Tell me about the underage girls who get manipulated and abused into selling their bodies? Yes, that is disgusting and despicable. But we don’t need a law that says you can’t prostitute a minor because we already have a law that says you can’t have sex with a minor - period. And here’s a news flash, the sentence for a statutory is far more severe than the penalty for promotion of prostitution.

What then, the poor girl is selling her ass because she’s addicted to coke? So you’ll help her by locking her up for prostitution AND possession. Brilliant. I’m sure she’ll be a pillar of society when she emerges from county lock up.

But wait, what about the ones who are trafficked into this country illegally and forced to work as prostitutes? Human trafficking is already illegal is it not? Entering the country illegally is already illegal, is it not? As is slavery, I’m pretty sure, something about an emancipation something or other… so for some reason we still need to lump them all in the same boat as the consenting adults who enter into a mutually beneficial agreement? Yes I can see how that’s the same thing…and George Clooney looks just like the Elephant man only with better hair.

Glass window…yeah, the boys in blue are just being good soldiers, following orders. I have to follow orders too sometimes. But if I am told to do something that denigrates my own values, then I don’t do it. So I guess if I was a cop, I might opt for an assignment other than vice, which is nothing more than a political-morality Gestapo. Fuck them and the guy who signs their paycheck. No alias needed.

All due respect to those law enforcement agents who CAN actually see the forest, even though the trees are blocking your view.    

the article I saw said that police were not releasing the hotel name nor the website where the ad was placed and that future stings could be expected.    

Screen screen screen ladies!!   And gents, try to stick to those you know are well established.  I know the little guy has a mind of his sometimes, but, just the same, try to keep him in check.  You know, pat him on the head every once and a while when he's being really good.  Or, if you want, I can do that for you!!  LOL

Be careful!

I have only two possible answers.  First, there are 14 or so people who know what ad was used.  Either they are not aware of what we do here (which, in part, may explain how they got in trouble) Or they are simply too freaked out by the whole experience to log in and talk about it.  

Those are my best guesses.

That would be great to know...and/or even where it was posted?

I did some digging.  BP is where I looked, and I found 1 gal who never posted before, and had 5 postings yesterday for the 494 strip... Every couple of hours for the whole day.  Also, the price was very, very low, which makes me think that's how LE would attract 14-20 people.

Just my guess but ad on BP.  Location 494/incall, ran 4 times. Just a body shot for picture.