Posted on Sep 8, 2017
13 Fort Hood Soldiers Arrested In Prostitution Sting
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All the way up to a Major in the MP's. COL Mikel J. Burroughs SSG Robert Webster CPT Jack Durish SFC William Farrell SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SGT (Join to see) PVT James Strait CPT Aaron Kletzing
13 Fort Hood Soldiers Arrested In Prostitution Sting
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SN Greg Wright
Not at all hard to imagine. Soldiers and Sailors have been doing this since time immemorial, as have women. The only way this is a crime is if the women were coerced. If they chose to be there, this is bullshit.
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LTC Marc King
SN Greg Wright - SN Greg Wright... you are spot on here. This might be Article 15 punishment territory but nothing more. "Hookers" got their moniker as camp followers of Gen Joe Hooker's Union forces during the Civil War. We are shocked that soldiers do such heinous activities... guess no one has been deployed to South Korea for a while. I concur this is BS.
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So here's the thing. The two responding to ads that are obviously marketed as underage, yeah... throw the book at them. The rest... I've got issues about sting operations where cops invent crimes to prosecute. They're going after the demand part, and really, they don't and won't ever make a dent in a criminal industry by that method. Particularly this one. Because there's always going to be demand. You aren't going to hurt the prostitution business by going after the johns.
The other thing you have to ask yourself is what the county has to gain out of this. In my county, there's a Nuisance Vehicle Abatement program, which has two caveats... noise violations (your stereo's too loud) and solicitation. Either gets your vehicle impounded, and along with the impound fee, you get hit with a $900 (first offense, double for the second, triple for the third, etc) fee to release the abatement. Here's the fun part... you don't even have to be charged with a crime, let alone found guilty, for the abatement to take effect. And the solicitation part, if you so much as look at a supposed hooker on the road, it can be construed as "flagging". There was an instance where a utility worker on the job in Detroit was approached by an undercover decoy, told her no, and was immediately jumped on by Sheriffs. Charged with solicitation and had his work vehicle impounded under the abatement program. The solicitation charge was dropped almost immediately in court, but the company still had to pay the abatement fee to get their work truck out of abatement. Stings like this in my county... they're a scam to generate money for the county, which is corrupt as all hell. So similarly, I'm left wondering about just what exact motives this Sheriff's Department had in the sting. Even if it's just something as simple as an election year for the county Sheriff, and they need to show some sign that they're trying to clean up the county.
Mind you, I'm not excusing the activity itself. All I'm saying is that I'm questioning the motives and methods of the LEOs.
The other thing you have to ask yourself is what the county has to gain out of this. In my county, there's a Nuisance Vehicle Abatement program, which has two caveats... noise violations (your stereo's too loud) and solicitation. Either gets your vehicle impounded, and along with the impound fee, you get hit with a $900 (first offense, double for the second, triple for the third, etc) fee to release the abatement. Here's the fun part... you don't even have to be charged with a crime, let alone found guilty, for the abatement to take effect. And the solicitation part, if you so much as look at a supposed hooker on the road, it can be construed as "flagging". There was an instance where a utility worker on the job in Detroit was approached by an undercover decoy, told her no, and was immediately jumped on by Sheriffs. Charged with solicitation and had his work vehicle impounded under the abatement program. The solicitation charge was dropped almost immediately in court, but the company still had to pay the abatement fee to get their work truck out of abatement. Stings like this in my county... they're a scam to generate money for the county, which is corrupt as all hell. So similarly, I'm left wondering about just what exact motives this Sheriff's Department had in the sting. Even if it's just something as simple as an election year for the county Sheriff, and they need to show some sign that they're trying to clean up the county.
Mind you, I'm not excusing the activity itself. All I'm saying is that I'm questioning the motives and methods of the LEOs.
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