Screening & LE

[instudiocity]

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Dates:

 

January 28, 2016

 

November 17, 2015

 

October 15, 2015

 

 

Those dates very recent and may I also add they were all posted weeks/month apart. So you mean to tell me those dates are “old”. Funny, the article you are referring was printed January 29, 2016. You are trying to justify the relevance of an article based on rather it directly suggests male escorts or backpage etc. That is a basic level of thinking. Journalist report real news but keep details our government does not want them to publish out of the headlines. Furthermore, the key word in the articles I have found and the one you refer to is “Human trafficking”. They are all related. End of story. We both disagree, that has been made very clear.

Well let's see, the November article and the October article are both older than the January article. So yes, when I use the word "older" in referencing in context that you came up with OLDER articles. I don't understand why that's an issue with you. I'm not so stupid as to thing that 'older' cannot encompass a few months ago.

 

I'm not trying to 'justify' anything at all. I don't know where you get that. I'm simply pointing out that these articles are irrelevant to a discussion of cops setting up male escorts or their male clients in a sting. The OP's posting was a warning that LAPD was stinging male escorts serving male clients. The LAT article was discussing Santa Clara police the weekend before the Super Bowl.

 

The articles you're referencing all point to LAPD Vice squads in the San Fernando Valley focusing on streetwalkers. The only BACK on any of those webpages is the BACK TO TOP link that takes you back to the top of the article. Male Escorts, Backpage, etc. are not found in any of these articles.

 

As to Human Trafficking, GOD I hope none of the male escorts discussed on this site are subject of Human Trafficking. If they are, I hope they can find help.

 

I'm not disagreeing with you in what you're saying but in that you are going from an article the OP posted saying LAPD was tracking male escorts and using an article written about Santa Clara CA the weekend before the Super Bowl.

 

It's interesting to me that you know the occupation of one of your contacts as a police evidence specialist. Interestingly, if the police wanted to use an evidence specialist to entrap you WHY IN THE HELL WOULD HE TELL YOU HE WAS EMPLOYED BY LAPD?

 

I'll not take the time to search it, but I am remembering one escort who posted on this site that he actually had a client who was some kind of civilian employee of a police department.

[adannyboy]

January was Human Trafficking Awareness month, so before the Super Bowl, there were stings for that. That was the one that netted 200 arrests in LA and it was said that 115 were for solicitation which means consensual adults. (In CA, penal code 647(b) applies to buyer and seller, but the police can pose as one to bust the other). In this bust, the street worker tracks were hit harder in south LA.

 

Then, Super Bowl weekend happened and the arrest count was lower, but still significant.

 

Then, the one I posted about happened at Medici. No media on that sting, but in the last week I've met at least 3 girls who got busted there.

 

On top of this, the LA City atty is going after massage parlors.

 

 

Lastly, falling to coercion, fraud and exploitation is not inherent to the street trade. True, Indoor workers have lower risk, but there is no such thing as immunity from a bad situation because of your place in the "whorearchy" and working on the street does not equal having a pimp.

[LADoug1]

As to Human Trafficking, GOD I hope none of the male escorts discussed on this site are subject of Human Trafficking. If they are, I hope they can find help.

 

I've often wondered about this. I agree with you and also hope they would be able to find help.

[MrMattBig]

As much as anyone may say the articles are not relevant to male escorts they are. Often when the media post articles about “human trafficking” and use prostitutes and pimps being found to tell society “We are helping victims and putting the bad guy away”, but really they have nothing better to do but target any and every sex worker. Unfortunately, our government puts a lot of time and resources into victimless crimes. Sometimes we have to ask ourselves what is an article really saying. I am going based off research and my experiences. I use facts to form an opinion.

 

Furthermore, LE used an evidence specialist to try to get to me. Did he tell who is was? No, he tried to lure me in by saying he was a couple and blah blah blah(lol). Lucky for me I screened him and found out who is really was. He ended up calling me from a burned phone saying it was his girlfriend’s phone and she wanted to talk to me (burned phone is when an escort gets caught up and LE uses the same phone to lure in clients and escorts). To confirm he was LE a friend check out the address (as crazy as that sounds, we just wanted to be sure) and she confirmed it was a sting. Crazy huh, we just have to be safe.