Hawaii police urge lawmakers to let undercover cops have sex with prostitutes

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Hawaii police urge lawmakers to let undercover cops have sex with prostitutes

 

Police officers have a message for state lawmakers: Undercover officers need to be able to have sex with prostitutes.

It's a message they're pressing as legislators weigh a bill that would crack down on prostitution. As part of that bill, lawmakers initially did away with an existing exemption allowing officers on duty to have sex with prostitutes during investigations. But after testimony from Honolulu officers, the bill was amended to restore that protection.

The revised proposal has passed the state House and will go before a Senate committee Friday.

Authorities say they need the legal protection to catch lawbreakers in the act, and strict internal controls prohibit misconduct.

"The procedures and conduct of the undercover officers are regulated by department rules, which by nature have to be confidential," Honolulu Police Maj. Jerry Inouye recently told the House Judiciary Committee. "Because if prostitution suspects, pimps and other people are privy to that information, they're going to know exactly how far the undercover officer can and cannot go."

But critics, including human trafficking experts and other police, say it's unnecessary and can further victimize sex workers, many of whom have been forced into the trade.

Expert Derek Marsh says the exemption is "antiquated at best" and that police can easily do their jobs without it.

 

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[+Red King Subscriber²]

Just make prostitution a legal enterprise. Seriously, USA, stop.

[Gerowen]

Step 1) Legalize prostitution
Step 2) Profit

Seriously.  They could work in organized businesses with health benefits and checkups, they would pay taxes on their income, we wouldn't be spending millions of dollars a year prosecuting something that has been around since probably before we invented farming, and the girls (or guys) would have options.  If they didn't like one place they were working, they could leave and go some place else without worrying about the threat of physical abuse when your "boss" is some thug who knows what you're doing is illegal.

[GotBored]

Join the Police force, get paid to have sex with prostitutes.

 

- Soon to be Hawaii's new police recruiting motto.

 

*All paid for by taxpayers*

 

They should really just legalize it and tax them.

[leesmithg]

If the hookers didn't charge, then it's free and they are not then prostitutes.

[Hum]

^ I thought that makes them sluts ....

 

 Anyway, never mix sex and money.

[leesmithg]

^ I thought that makes them sluts ....

 

 Anyway, never mix sex and money.

Also makes the cops sluts also.

[FloatingFatMan]

The law needs to get out of the bedrooms of consenting adults.

[winrez]

i bet the wives of the undercover officers would love this.

[sagum]

The law needs to get out of the bedrooms of consenting adults.

 

 

The problem is, the sex trade doesn't always mean the prostitutes are willingly having sex. Their 'pimps' are often violent, and have these girls hooked on drugs, and that's just the girls that work the streets. There are entire subcultures of sex trafficking where people are sold as sex objects to work in clubs, some don't have freedom, let alone the ability to consent. I think the latter in this case is what the law is trying to change, to allow the officers to go deeper in to these underground rings without one of the victims turning around and telling the pimp the officer just wanted to 'chat and cuddle'.

[FloatingFatMan]

So punish the traffickers for slavery or assault and so on.  No need to make selling sex illegal as there plenty of other laws to cover the other things.

[techbeck]

Just make prostitution a legal enterprise. Seriously, USA, stop.

 

Yea, but you have to have rules around it or disease and crime would run rampant.  License, regular Dr checkups.....

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Yea, but you have to have rules around it or disease and crime would run rampant.  License, regular Dr checkups.....

That is all part of making it fully legal.

[Xtreme2damax]

Reminds me of this. :p

 

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/251908/this-is-your-company-now

 

Disclaimer: Likely won't work for those outside the USA, couldn't find a Youtube video.

[compl3x]

So punish the traffickers for slavery or assault and so on.  No need to make selling sex illegal as there plenty of other laws to cover the other things.

 

Pretty much this.

 

Slavery and force should be severely punished. But selling sex shouldn't be outlawed because some of the sex-trade is criminal.

[COKid]

The exemption is now being ended. The police have agreed to it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-lawmakers-to-ban-prostitution-exemption-for-police/