Three Harry Hines bath houses under investigation for prostitution

kaja, says:

Is it safe now for our women and children?

DC, says:

Everyone knows what comment comes next.... cake toppers.

Also, what is with that hairy back?

J_Mortimer, says:

Uh... Election coming up in May. They always do this before election time.

J

kaja, says:

Michael, Would you rather have more girls working the streets and from apartments - maybe next door to your home?

eastside, says:

Has anyone considered about looking into the possibility of there being a sex slave trade amongst these sex oriented businesses. Stopping the problem where it begins is one way of putting a happy ending to the issue.

LOL

eastside

kaja, says:

Yes, eastside; why do you think the police were so quick to throw out the term “human trafficking”? Although the catch-phrase human trafficking is a very ambiguous, those with the most to gain from the public’s misperceptions are very quick to invoke that language. The emotional reactions of the public based on sensationalized movies, TV programs and essays concerning that subject help justify the actions and attitude of law enforcement. Additionally, nearly all of the media are complicit in deceiving the public by not making law enforcement bureaucrats explain what they mean by human trafficking in each individual case; and either by not following up and reporting the results of the police’s investigation, or by letting the police off the hook when they spin a response of “insufficient evidence to bring charges”.

The reality is that in this country, nearly all of what is called “human trafficking” is simply that the so-called “victim” has voluntarily paid a supposed expert to assist getting through US immigration enforcement. While I’m certainly not defending that practice, it is not the same thing as the image that many have of young girls being snatched from their beds in the middle of the night and transported to a distant land where they are tortured and forced into sexual submission.

The term “sex slavery” is also widely misused to justify ineffective law enforcement. Again, nearly all of the domestic incidents labeled “sexual slavery” are the results of a girl working (in a vocation she had already chosen), but with most of her earnings going to some form of a loan shark. The reason these loan sharks can exist is because our culture has forced this entire business underground where it is dominated by real underworld criminals and gangsters.

Real human trafficking and sex slavery do exist, and it’s nothing to make jokes or laugh about. Allowing law enforcement bureaucrats to justify themselves and make their departments look like heroes by using those terms for spin does not solve the problems.