Raja wrote:In any case priorities of vice enforcement seemed to be street walkers first, followed by the advertising escort, and then the strippers. As massage became a more mainstream occupation the problem was finding one where the girls worked for tips and not actual masseuses, not local law enforcement.
The local houses did not have the traffic that brothels in the movies did and it would be incredibly costly to catch one man and then have the cities attorney try to close the business on the evidence of one girl asking is there anything else and catching one guy with a condom on.
Well, at least in my region, there are very few streetwalkers, outside of let's say certain lower income neighborhoods, where the police are more afraid of getting hurt themselves, than in doing something. Basically, they let the gangs *go at it* and then, they don't have much to do except mop up the mess afterwards. Outside of these areas, however, you'll seldom find streetwalkers unless they operate in some sort of code and dress up like regular college co-eds.
Since the actual crime outside of non-inner city regions involve drugs (esp Oxycontin), grand theft, house burglaries, etc, the police paradoxically appear to have ample time to run non-stop sting ops on esc*rts, massage places, etc, as there are busts reported regularly, not once in a blue moon. Thus, if your car gets stolen, chances are, no one will do anything about it, however, if you get busted at a massage parlor, you better hope that the DA simply drops the case for lack of definitive evidence. But even if your case doesn't go to trial, your name will be given to your hometown newspaper during the process. This is another tactic of a police state, as employers and neighbors can make their own decision as to either ostracize or blacklist you.
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