It's a virtual certainty that some members of WSG Forum are law enforcement. It's also a certainty that some of them are monitoring the forums relative to their cities.
However, do we have any evidence that this is occurring in the Tampa forum? It's hard to say, really, because they may be monitoring but are not as yet prepared to take any action.
[b]Streetwalkers[/b]
Streetwalker posts are almost all useless to law enforcement. They are very transient in nature. There's no door they can knock on to serve a warrant or otherwise waste the public's resources. (Shouldn't you guys be chasing real criminals, like murderers?) So streetwalker posts can be quite explicit and there really isn't anything LE can do about it.
[b]Escorts[/b]
This is the most vulnerable group, particularly if contact information is provided. The cops can simply set her up, done deal.
[b]Extra Clubs[/b]
This is the term I use for clubs that provide extras, chief among them being Lipstixx. Despite the raids of a year or so ago, I don't think these clubs are as vulnerable to our posts as you might think.
Let's think about it. What could LE actually do with the information? Is it good enough to get a warrant from a judge? Probably, but I'm no expert. Still, what could they do with a warrant? Stage a raid? Raids of strip clubs for providing sexual services have happened, but they're of limited utility, because they only net those caught red-handed. The cops are interested in an on-going investigation to bring everything down, like they did with the Pony and the other clubs.
No matter how sexually explicit our posts are, I don't think they're of much utility to LE. Do you think they'd be admissible in court as evidence? Postings to an anonymous message board by people with psuedonyms about people with pseudonyms? It's hard to say, but I think even if they were admissible, they wouldn't be of much value. And I really don't think they are admissible.
No, the cops need an on-going, on-site investigation of a place to really nail it. No matter how explicit our posts are, the best it's going to give them is the notion that something is going on, and folks, I'm pretty sure they're already aware of that.
Let me be clear that when I say "explicit" I mean [i]sexually[/i] explicit. For instance, if you post that you ass-fucked a dancer at Mons named Katana and then she swallowed your cum out of a shotglass for $300, I don't think it'd be of much use to LE. However, if you then said that the secret password to getting sex at Mons is IORIO, that would be overstepping it a bit. Don't give out any secrets!
Of course, I could be wrong, so let's get some comments on this.