Prostitution Stings Throughout Massachusetts
I figured making a page about stings in Mass will keep us guys abreast of whats' going on out there. If you guys have any reports of an arrest dealing with sex for a fee, Post it,....but
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Jackson,
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ARREST MADE FOR SOLCITING A PROSTITUTE
At about 2:15am, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, plain-clothes officers from District B-2 (Roxbury) observed a woman, known to be a prostitute, talking to an individual in a van at the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Maywood Street. Officers then pulled their unmarked cruiser along side the van. The operator of the van, however, did not immediately see the officers. As such, officers heard him say to the female, “Come on honey .. get in.” However, when the operator of the van finally saw the officers, he began yelling at the female, “Get out of my car!” The operator of the van then attempted to speed off, with the female hanging onto the motor vehicle. Officers then activated their emergency equipment (lights & sirens) and stopped the van. Officers then arrested xxxxxx, 50, of Dorchester and charged him with Soliciting Prostitution and Driving to Endanger.
Ain't technology wonderful?
All of this simply proves an old free-market economic rule: business activity seeks the friendliest and most effective marketing channels. CM is right, but it's not just CL - there are hundreds of websites providing a place for providers to advertise their services. Take a look at them, and you'll find the same women, using the same pictures, on several sites. The thing that CL provides that the others do not is current information because of the need to refresh posts. Unfortunately, as has been mentioned so often here, the percentage of good providers on CL is very low.
Someone - and I cannot remember who, so I can't properly attribute his sage comment - said that it seems that in the progressive liberal areas of the country, the street action is dying...and in the more traditional, religious and conservative areas it's flourishing. Could that be because computer networking resources and computer literacy is more prevalent in those well populated, progressive liberal areas - that more providers know about and are capable of using the friendlier marketing channels on the internet?
If the volume of providers now selling their services on the internet or with publications were to return to the streets, it would be like the sixties and seventies multiplied several times over. LE would not have the resources to make a big dent in the business. That's what is happening on the internet - while you read about a few busts made by LE using CL, by comparison to the total volume of people using the internet, those busts are like a mosquito bite on the back of an elephant.
Here's an earlier comment on the subject...
[url]http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?p=478088#post478088[/url]
The providers who use CL are taking on a slightly greater risk by using a medium that provides current info to [b]both[/b] prospective customers and LE. Customers also assume greater risks - lousy providers or criminals intent on stealing.
Any use of the internet to find providers has risks associated with both incalls and outcalls - either they are going to come to your turf, [b]if you are at home[/b], or you are going to play on their turf, and walk into the unknown. The risks associated with either should be pretty obvious.
Overall, the risks to both providers and customers is now much less using the internet than working and trolling the streets because the volume of activity is beyond LE resources. This makes your individual odds of getting busted much lower.
For those of us who live for "Le Chasse" sitting at the computer just doesn't make it. It just isn't as much fun, and at least on the street, [b]what you see is what you will get[/b], actual quality of service notwithstanding.
Hmmm...I wonder if it would help to use one of those steering wheel and pedal game controllers while trolling the internet action...
the puritans are winning again!!!
we can't even get a beer at 3am.
For me, the bottom line is....
[QUOTE=Bill Buxton]I would rather roll the dice on the street after dark rather than meet a gal unknown and unseen most of the time with a driver for the high 1 hr price they now want.As you can read the gals operating on the net have chemical problems also.Safer?? who knows its your call I would rather look in the mirror and see who is behind me while driving.Rather than trying to see who is standing be hind a door,wall whatever wanting to take what I got.Its a bad deal out there eather way.
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that the key rule, [b]no matter what kind of rendezvous,[/b] is to be the one who chooses the venue for the meeting - make sure the turf is to [b]your[/b] liking. There are obviously some qualifiers to the rule that will allow you to bend it a bit - and those qualifiers go to your confidence in the provider based on [b]prior experience[/b]. If you are dealing with someone new, err on the side of conservatism and safety.
The most important thing is to maintain a suspicious attitude, and [b]if there is any little niggling doubt or concern, [i]don't go.[/i][/b]
Boston Police Detective Sgt. Jimmy Fong
[QUOTE=Boston Monger]Since the crackdown began, 40 illegal “massage parlors” and S&M dungeons in the area have been shut down, and at least 100 suspected prostitutes and johns have been arrested, Fong said.
“We use the Internet to try to get a handle on the prostitution problem. Many of the street workers have been pushed out,” Fong said. “They are moving outside of the city.”
Working undercover, Fong said he responded last week to a listing posted on craigslist that read “gorgeous female available to meet submissive men.”
“I’m kind of new to this. I like to be tied up,” the sergeant-detective allegedly wrote back in an e-mail.
“You have to play along with them to get the appointment,” he explained.
xxxxxx, writing under the Web pseudonym “Miss Gorgeous,” allegedly informed Fong she is paid $175 a half hour for virtually everything, including “spanking, role play, bondage, tease, bondage and toys.”[/QUOTE]
that guy is the Eliot Ness of Craigslist. He has been doing stings for 2 years now.