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The Las Vegas prostitute on last week's episode (3/23/13)

posted 12 years ago by raha_hockey
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This is referring to the first segment in this episode about the Last Vegas Prostitute:

I was shocked that they took her to jail. Do you think she will get convicted? The police have absolutely no hard evidence that she was soliciting for prostitution. She could very well been just hanging out on the street. Can cops actually do this?

It scares me that they can take you to jail for doing nothing wrong. And it's amazing that they are allowed to question people like that. Verbally harassing the girl for 15 minutes, then saying she isn't cooperative and taking her to jail.

I understand that cops often do much worse off camera, but since this is being televised, I thought they'd try to act professionally.

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[–] ohioankev 12 years ago

Well not to mention thanks to bills like the Patriot Act law enforcement has the rights to stop people, question and then frisk them just because "they look suspicious"

[–] darkavenger77 10 years ago

Well not to mention thanks to bills like the Patriot Act law enforcement has the rights to stop people, question and then frisk them just because "they look suspicious"

While I dislike the patriot act, that's not the correct law. In Terry vs. Ohio (1968), stop & frisk was allowed under certain circumstances, such as reasonable suspicion that a crime had been, was being, or was about to be committed and the person was armed.

The patriot act deals mainly with unconstitutional warrantless searches and surveillance/interception of communication.

Dean: I am wearing sunglasses at night. You know who does that? No-talent douche bags!

[–] ceethismove 12 years ago

Yea saw this one tonight. Made my blood boil quite frankly.

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[–] lephi03 10 years ago

I know I am late to the party but here goes anyway.

LVMPD has the Vice Enforcement Top Offender list or VETO of frequently arrested prostitutes that the guys the work downtown and the strip know by face it is common for the DA to offer deals to the girls to stay out of jail with the term that they do not go to the the tourism districts, failure to do so results in arrest.

Like I said late to the party and you will likely never see this but had to chime in.

[–] manilookgood 10 years ago

This is true.

I didn't see the episode, but there have been a few abusive scum "officers" on Cops. I don't see a lot of them, but Officer Joe Frentess was one of them.

It's funny because he starts off his segment saying something along the lines of "I'm human too. I put my pants on one leg at a time." I thought he was going to be an ok guy, but man I was wrong. In every profession, there will deadbeat pieces of *beep* He happened to be the posterboy for Cops.

It sucks because I know some really great officers who do a great job of helping the community. Kids like joe really give good cops a bad name.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 9 years ago

Technically, prostitution treats a woman like an object right? They kind of could find hard evidence on her, at the time they found her to be suspicious of committing it. This means convicting her, taking her to a hospital and checking to see if she had any semen on her or whatever else would give evidence that she was doing something that night. Interrogating does not stop with visual evidence.

Better watch out, better start crying. Better hurry up, run and hide. Krampus is coming to town! >:)