Questions Raised Over Cops That Allowed Hookers To Masturbate Them

[matcom]

<snip>

Lynnwood police concede they engaged in "rarely used" tactics during an undercover investigation into a suspected prostitution ring.

Those tactics, which included officers allowing prostitutes to masturbate them in exchange for cash, have raised questions among law-enforcement officials, legal experts and the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office.

Lynnwood police Cmdr. Paul Watkins said he spent a great deal of time justifying the officers' actions to prosecutors to prove that the officers themselves weren't breaking the law. Snohomish County prosecutors on Monday filed a felony charge of promotion of prostitution against Myong Pang, 42, of University Place, Pierce County. On Sept. 30, they filed a misdemeanor prostitution charge against Myong Chow, 40, of Tacoma.

"The officers didn't cross that line of engaging in intercourse or oral sex," Watkins said. "I advised them no oral sex, no intercourse, that's not going to happen. That's the understood policy. There's no written policy regarding this."

But other law-enforcement officials who weren't involved in the investigation say allowing officers to engage in such acts, even in an undercover investigation, goes too far. The usual tactic, they say, calls for an arrest once someone agrees to perform a sexual act in exchange for money.

Seattle and King County police, for example, do not allow undercover officers to have sexual contact with prostitutes.

And at least one legal expert thinks prosecutors will have a tough time convicting the suspects as a result of the officers' behavior.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002545187_prostitutes07m.html

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. sounds like a massage parlor raid

and not the typical street prostitution busts usually in the paper.

[Zuni]

3. massage parlors

:thumbsup:

[underpants]

2. We call them Snohomists around here

"allowing prostitutes to masturbate them "

We call people who are afraid to call handjobs handjobs that.

[hunter]

4. Some police departments claim to use very realistic...

...um...devices...

All they really need is one, to show off in court.