[QUOTE=Selasorp;6847175]He is not over thinking it at all. If a LEO goes to an establishment, and is offered any thing besides a legit massage for money, that is all that is needed to get a warrant, it is more than enough to arrest the provider on the spot. There is prevailing case law regarding it. Does not matter that it is public property or not, the majority of crimes are committed on private property. The the does not file lawsuits, they file criminal charges, and l guess that you have not heard about translators, that it is easy for visa's to get revoked. I don't know where your knowledge came from, but it is not from any lawyer or anyone who has been involved in law enforcement. I saw many places get shut down in another state because of one workers offing to one LEO and them closing and reopening just to set the place uop as a sting operation.[/QUOTE]Wait, all I ever do is go in for a "legit massage", but maybe my hands start roaming and before I know it, I'm committing sexual harassment. Could arrest me right on the spot. I too have been to places that have been raided and shut down. In the one particular case that stays in my mind, the problem wasn't so much the shop, but rather the women she kept in an apartment and the cash the operation generated. The proprietor went away for several years and had a large monetary forfeiture. Not so much for the sexual favors at the shop, which were incidental, but rather the human trafficking. (Which I can't condone).
I am not lawyer, which should be obvious. I don't even play one on the internet. Let's go back to this "case" in Flagstaff: [URL]https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/flagstaff-pd-officers-fully-naked-fondled-during-massage-investigation[/URL].
They found no human trafficking and that the officers violated the law. I would be hard pressed to convict anyone of engaging in a sexual act with an adult in private. Let's get this straight, you go into a private business and mutually agree with an adult not under duress or coercion that you'd like to exchange money for some sexual act. You expect to take this to a jury who are likely to have atleast one person like me on it who says "WTF?" and in the Flagstaff case had the case actually gone to a jury, it could have easily been seen as police entrapment. (which is also illegal).
If they wanted to, I have no doubt they could bust these places. But in a lot of cases, they are probably the least problematic businesses in the strip mall. I'd rather have an AMP than a liquor store, smoke store, pawn shop, coin laundry, plasma donation place, or a bar in a strip mall near me.
I guess they could re-open the place as part of a sting, but as soon as Officer Tool shows up to massage me, I'm GTFO.
If I'm on the vice squad and I am tasked with cleaning up prostitution, I'm not going to a spa, I'm going to 27th Ave. I want the women and their pimps out of the neighborhood. I want the drug trade that goes along with it as well.
But if the police show up, I'm there for a massage and as I paid for the hour. Y'all need to GTFO.
