Hypocritical Double Standard?
All over the USA, for years police have been using sneaky sting operations to capture and arrest prostitution customers. Indeed, some members of this forum have reported being personally victimized by police prostitution stings.
Here's an interesting example of the hypocritical double standard that can apply when a police officer himself hires a prostitute.
Except for services provided inside licensed brothels, prostitution is illegal in Nevada. In May of 2014, a sergeant on the police force of Kensington, California, KXXXX BXXXXX, was temporarily staying at a hotel in a "seedy" section of Reno, Nevada. That sergeant was also the president of the Kensington police officers union. Yet, he hired a discount hooker in Reno for seventy bucks. In a photo, she looks somewhat similar to a disheveled pig, LOL.
Subsequently, the sergeant fell asleep in his room, and the discount hooker left after stealing his service gun and two clips of ammunition, his handcuffs and his police badge, LOL. There's an allegation that the sergeant "may have" been drugged by the hooker, but no evidence has been publicly disclosed to support that allegation. Fortunately, the sergeant's gun was recovered the following day from the hooker's meth-smoking "dude" (pimp), who accidentally shot himself in the leg with it. Though by that time, the gun's serial number had been removed. The other stolen items were also recovered.
The prosecutor's office in Reno declined to prosecute the police sergeant for hiring the prostitute and didn't explain why. Maybe it was "professional courtesy" of some sort? By contrast, of course, the hooker was located, arrested and charged with felony grand larceny. She eventually pleaded guilty to reduced charges.
After the Kensington police chief learned of his sergeant's offense of hiring a prostitute, nothing whatsoever happened to the sergeant during the [U]eight months[/U] that the incident was, supposedly, being "investigated," LOL. The lawbreaker continued to work as a so-called law enforcement officer and receive pay and benefits from the taxpayers at a rate of $186,000 per year.
Only after a newspaper began snooping around about what had happened to the sergeant was any action taken. The sergeant will remain on the police force, but will have four weeks of unpaid leave from active duty. (Wow, what a substantial punishment, smirk. Maybe he can visit Reno again during his "vacation".) There's still been no criminal prosecution of the sergeant for hiring the prostitute. A university professor of criminal justice says that the sergeant should be fired for dereliction of duty, especially for failing to safely secure his gun with a prostitute in the room. Although the sergeant hasn't been fired, after numerous news reports on the scandal the Kensington police chief's contract hasn't been renewed. Yet, the police chief will continue receiving his $262,000 annual compensation for more than three additional months, until the end of May.
The sergeant, meanwhile, is a defendant in a federal lawsuit by a store owner about another matter, charging that he was involved with stealing thousands of dollars worth of cash, jewelry and other items from the store owner during a drug raid.
Long live freedom of the press.