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  • NYPD prostitution scandal

    When ever corruption scandals breaks, I always notice two things:

    1) The “blue was of silence” is more fiction than fact. Sure, cops in collusion won’t talk, at first. But that’s hardly a blue wall. I mean, given people’s natural inclination not to snitch on their friends and family, cops snitch on other cops quite regularly. Probably more so than other occupations. Why? A) cops don’t like bad cops, B) when push comes to shove, people CYA and say “I’m not going to risk my pension for that dirty cop I never liked anyway.”

    2) The dollar amount some cops are willing to screw up their lives, their reputations, and their valuable pension. It’s chump change. Lazy cops retire. Bad cops retire. But dirty cops rarely retire because being able to rat out a dirty cop is a great get-out-of-jail-free card. And that card is something other crooks find very useful. I mean, just put in 20 to 25 years and they pay you for the rest of life! And you screw it all for $100 here and $200 there?

    But here we go, as reported in the Times: “One detective was allowed to pay $20 for an encounter with a prostitute that would normally cost $40.” A cop gave his all for $20 off a blow job.

    This was a “multi-year NYPD investigation” started by a top from a cop. But a multi-year NYPD investigation means there are a lot of well crossed T’s and beautifully dotted I’s.

    Last I heard, 7 cops and about 20 civilians were arrested.

    It’s also interesting when internal PD investigation brings down dirty cops. Cops are like, “Great, system finally worked! Stupid dirty cops got what they had coming.” Cop-sceptics are like, “Blue Wall of Silence is proof police are irrevocable corrupt!”

    Also, for police and sex-workers alike, prostitution should be regulated and legal.

  • Guns don’t kill people…

    …people with guns who can’t get laid kill people.

    Can somebody tell me why we won’t discuss legal prostitution in this country?

    “The gunmanis believed to be Elliot Rodger, 22, who in a YouTube video said he was sexually frustrated and about to go on “a mission of retribution.””

    “In severalRodger referred to himself as an incel (involuntary celibate)”

  • Street Meters for Street Walkers

    You might think that headline is a joke, but it’s not. Good for Bonn, I say!

  • What about the children!?!

    Anybody who hears hears crap like “200,000 to 300,000 US youth are victims of sex trafficking” and believes it needs a tune-up in the department of B.S. detection. I don’t know why people love to believe made up stats and then discount real ones that matter (eg: poverty, prison, homicide).

    One headline read, “HUMAN TRAFFICKING INDUSTRY THRIVES IN PORTLAND METRO AREA.” But when the reporter dug deeper:

    She soon found an even bigger story: none of it was true…. In short, every single statistic that advocates and politicians had used to justify Portland’s label as a “hub” of child sex trafficking fell apart.

    In City Pages, Nick Pinto looked at the methodology behind the “stats.” It’s a how-to in how not to do research. For instance, in trying to determine the scope of underage prostitutes, they looked at pictures of ads in the back of local newspapers. And then they guessed the age of girls in the picture. As to prostitution’s increase, they counted online classifieds featuring “young women” over time. More adds meant more child prostitution. Then they threw terms like “random sample” and “balanced by race and gender” in the mix. Are you kidding me!?

    Of course it’s not like the people coming up with these numbers care about the truth (“think of the children!”):

    It’s now clear they used fake data to deceive the media and lie to Congress. And it was all done to score free publicity and a wealth of public funding.

    “We pitch it the way we think you’re going to read it and pick up on it,” says Kaffie McCullough, the director of Atlanta-based anti-prostitution group A Future Not a Past. “If we give it to you with all the words and the stuff that is actually accurate–I mean, I’ve tried to do that with our PR firm, and they say, ‘They won’t read that much.’”
    …
    Despite these flaws, the Women’s Funding Network, which held rallies across the nation, has been flogging [ed note: how dare they besmirch the good name of flogging!] the results relentlessly through national press releases and local member organizations. In press releases, the group goes so far as to compare its conjured-up data to actual hard numbers for other social ills.

    “Monthly domestic sex trafficking in Minnesota is more pervasive than the state’s annually reported incidents of teen girls who died by suicide, homicide, and car accidents (29 instances combined).”

    The first defense of lies is common sense. Education comes a close second. And perhaps third is not taking moral ideologues too seriously.

    Ultimately the answer to limiting the harms from prostitution is, oh, let me wind up the old Victrola and play that broken record: “legalize and regulate [skip] ‘galize and regulate [skip] ‘galize and regulate [skip] ‘galize and regulate….” Man, where do I find these 78s?

  • Regulated Vice

    Legalizing and regulated vice sure makes things easier and safer.

    Here’s the latest story, from the BBC, on such matters as prostitution in Amsterdam.

    The war on prostitution doesn’t affect society like the war on drugs does. But it’s just as crazy! Of course prostitution should be legal and regulated. Duh!

  • Five myths about prostitution

    So says Sudhir Venkatesh in an interesting articlein the Washington Post.

    Here are the myths:

    1. Prostitution is an alleyway business.

    2. Men visit sex workers for sex.

    3. Most prostitutes are addicted to drugs or were abused as children.

    4. Prostitutes and police are enemies.

    5. Closing Craigslist’s “adult services” section will significantly affect the sex trade.

    Read the whole article here.