Tuesday, March 15, 2011

LYING, IGNORANT OR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FUNNY TOBACCO

Lawyers are liars, and that includes prosecutors.

After a Sandy Springs, Georgia, cop was suspended for having sex with her during a vice investigation, the case against the prostitute he arrested was dropped. But Charles Olson, the general counsel of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, told the SSPD in an e-mail in September 2008 that other cases from around the country indicated "what your officers did is a legitimate investigative technique."

That’s a damn lie!

If Olson wasn’t deliberately lying then he was speaking out of ignorance or under the influence of some funny tobacco when he made his absurd statement. I am familiar with the procedures used by dozens of police vice units in this country and all of them prohibit officers from having sex with the prostitutes they are about to bust. In fact, many of them like my former agency – the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department – even prohibit their vice officers from disrobing.

A prostitution case can be made the moment money changes hands between the officer and the prostitute. There is no need for the cop to undress. Written rules and regulations should make it crystal clear that an officer is NOT to engage in sexual intercourse with a prostitute during a vice operation.

In this case, the suspended officer is suing the SSPD, claiming that he was singled out when, according to him, it was common practice for SSPD vice officers to have sex with the prostitutes they were investigating.

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