Land of the free. What a joke!
[QUOTE=Bearing100;6473761]As far as the girls I think most LEO would rather just not even bother with or them.
It's not like they're violent criminals or junkies. Most are pretty much just normal people outside of work & majority you talk to they take vacations, visit family & friends when not working and pretty clean cut in general (A lot don't even drink). So not shady characters at all. To them it's really just a job and legal a lot of places in the world anyway.[/QUOTE]Yeah but LE always claims the girls are victims of "human trafficking" every time one of these busts happen. Which to anyone who has even the slightest clue about it can see is not true. There is no way the girls could do what they do so cheerfully if they were being forced. Don't get me wrong, I know it's about the money for them, but it's obvious they are happy to do it for what they get paid.
It's just appalling beyond belief that consenting adults can be arrested and publicly besmirched over something so innocuous. LE wastes years of time and resources on investigations like this when they could be going after real bad guys trying to hurt and exploit children.
It's ok if you do it for FREE!
[QUOTE=StyleNProfile;6474134]Yeah but LE always claims the girls are victims of "human trafficking" every time one of these busts happen. Which to anyone who has even the slightest clue about it can see is not true. There is no way the girls could do what they do so cheerfully if they were being forced. Don't get me wrong, I know it's about the money for them, but it's obvious they are happy to do it for what they get paid.
It's just appalling beyond belief that consenting adults can be arrested and publicly besmirched over something so innocuous. LE wastes years of time and resources on investigations like this when they could be going after real bad guys trying to hurt and exploit children.[/QUOTE]It's truly amazing in the "land of the free" that you can be arrested for accepting money for a deed that is perfectly ok if done for free. That makes no sense at all. What if the law treated plumbers like that? "I can fix your toilet for free, but if I charge you, I go to jail. " It's senseless. And a total waste of law-enforcement resources at a time when we have real crime all around.
Bruce.
That's the bazillion dollar question.
[QUOTE=Bushido2130;6474286]Do you think they will come after customers?[/QUOTE]Everyone needs to understand that these places were probably under surveillance for months. If LE wants to make a "big splash", they might go after the visitors. Basically, a big waste of taxpayer dollars, for a "morality issue", when there is actual crime to address. Or maybe they just want to confiscate the $$ from the spas, to fund their police banquets, etc.
I know for a fact, that an independent provider in Seattle was arrested a few years back, and brought up on some trivial charges, while the $28 k cash she had her house was stolen and never reported as evidence. Spent quite a bit of time with her, off the clock, and got to know her pretty well. It was part of her savings, to start a restaurant. That's a pretty good pay day, for a few cops to share (and never report). Wonder how much $$$ was confiscated from MM, that will never get reported as "evidence". Even if it gets reported, it will just get "lost" in the criminal justice system.
It's always about the money
[QUOTE=Jeff1976;6474494]Everyone needs to understand that these places were probably under surveillance for months. If LE wants to make a "big splash", they might go after the visitors. Basically, a big waste of taxpayer dollars, for a "morality issue", when there is actual crime to address. Or maybe they just want to confiscate the $$ from the spas, to fund their police banquets, etc.
I know for a fact, that an independent provider in Seattle was arrested a few years back, and brought up on some trivial charges, while the $28 k cash she had her house was stolen and never reported as evidence. Spent quite a bit of time with her, off the clock, and got to know her pretty well. It was part of her savings, to start a restaurant. That's a pretty good pay day, for a few cops to share (and never report). Wonder how much $$$ was confiscated from MM, that will never get reported as "evidence". Even if it gets reported, it will just get "lost" in the criminal justice system.[/QUOTE]Of course it's about the money. That's why LE spends all that time surveilling the place "building a case" I. E. Figuring out how the money flows so they can snatch it all during the bust. And from there it goes straight into their pockets.
NDS / King / MM coincidence?
Anyone else find it odd that all these places shut down within a few weeks of each other or is it just me?
Almost as if LE had a tipper or they had been on surveillance on the AMP trifecta for some time and finally caught the owners in the act of money laundering or something.