Hallandale Beach Police have got a great job:
The police officer lay face down on the massage table, on duty, unarmed and naked.
For 30 minutes Shu Yuan Sun worked the muscles of the officer’s back, his shoulders and legs, and then told him, “Turn over.” And that, said Hallandale Beach Police Sgt. Todd Crevier, is when the crime went down.
(Went down, get it?)
During one visit, the woman identified as Nikki “brushed her hand across my penis” and then “made an up and down motion with her hand” to indicate an offer of masturbation, wrote one officer. The officer said he declined, saying, “Maybe next time.”
Naturally, this raises a few questions regarding just how far a police officer should go to make a prostitution arrest. And here’s the answer from Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy:
“Sometimes officers have to make their own moral decision as it relates what they feel comfortable with,” he said.
So your officers get to make their own moral decisions, but when these women and their customers make moral decisions you disagree with, you drag them off and throw them in a cage? Fuck you, Dwayne. Fuck you in your ass with a cactus.*
Of course Dwayne offers the usual excuse, invoking the moral panic du jour:
Hallandale Beach Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy said the nude stings are integral to a joint investigation with federal authorities into human trafficking, where women, many from China, are held as sex slaves. Florida ranks third in the nation in the number of such cases, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.
Yes, yes, they were rescuing these women from the ubiquitous-but-oh-so-elusive sex slavery rings of America.
The thing is, this is the United States of America. We had slavery, actual real slavery, for about 250 years. And during much of that time, we had real rescue operations. How exactly the “underground railroad” worked isn’t entirely clear because it operated in secrecy and few records were kept, but it didn’t involve dragging the slaves off to cages and publishing their names and pictures in the newspaper.
Yes, I realize that modern slavery is different, and some women really are coerced into sex slavery, but even so, what the Hallandale Beach police are doing still isn’t how you rescue slaves.
Hat tip: @mistressmatisse
*”Fuck you in your ass with a cactus” is a trademark of Marc Randazza.
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