A POLICE OFFICER TO HAVE SEX WITH A PROSTITUTE AND RECEIVE
IMMUNITY DURING AN INVESTIGATION.
BUT A NEW BILL IS
PROPOSING TO BAN
THAT LAW.
AS FAR AS I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO
RESEARCH MICHIGAN STATE IS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE THIS ON THE
BOOKS.
TO ME THE STORY COMES BACK TO BROAD AND VAGUE WORDING
IN THE LAW, NOT BEING PRECISE.
I DON'T THINK IT WAS WITH THE
INTENTION OF ALLOWING POLICE
OFFICERS TO HAVE SEX WITH POLICE OFFICERS FOR IMMUNITY.
BUT THAT
IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED, OR COULD
HAPPEN.
>>IT APPARENTLY HAS HAPPENED A NUMBER OF TIMES.
THIS IS ANOTHER
GREAT EXAMPLE OF ONE SET OF RULES FOR YOU GUYS, ANOTHER SET
OF RULES FOR US.
SOME OF IT
MIGHT MAKE SENSE.
YOU DON'T GET TO CARRY AROUND A BADGE AND A
GUN, AND COPS DO BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR JOB.
BUT REALLY?
>> I GET IT.
WHEN I AM UNDERCOVER I NEED TO MAINTAIN MY
COVER, I CAN'T IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUMAN TRAFFICKING STAYING SAY
I AM NOT GOING TO SLEEP WITH YOU.
BUT I JUST THINK LIKE IN
THE PROCESS YOU SHOULD BE A BETTER COP THAN TO HAVE TO BE
LIKE OH, I HAD TO SLEEP WITH
HER.
>> YOU CAN SAY I WAS UNDERCOVER WITH THESE TERRORISTS, AND I HAD
TO BLOW UP THE BUILDING WHERE THEY WOULD'VE REALIZED I WAS A
COP.
BEING AN UNDERCOVER COP IS SUPER TOUGH.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED
TO MOVE THE COKE WITH THEM, HAVE
SEX WITH HOOKERS WITH THEM.
NORMALLY.
WE COVERED A STORY LIKE THAT ON THE SHOW BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL
THESE LAWS IN MICHIGAN AND
HAWAII.
SOMETIMES COPS WOULD GO AND HAVE SEX WITH HOOKERS AND
THEN THEY WOULD ARREST THEM.
WHAT THE HELL.
THAT IS CRAZY.
IF YOU ARE INVESTIGATING HUMAN
TRAFFICKING ñ I THINK PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGAL
IT'S NOT THE COPS SHOULD BE ALLOWED, WE SHOULD ALL BE
ALLOWED.
IF YOU ARE
INVESTIGATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS OPPOSED TO
JUST PROSTITUTION ñ WHAT?
THAT IS EVEN WORSE.
>> DO YOU NEED TO TEST THE MERCHANDISE?IT MAKES ME FEEL
GROSS.
>>I KNOW THE INSTANCES YOU GUYS ARE TALKING OF HER TRUE AND
VALID.
BUT IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT THAT MANY OF THE OFFICERS
SHE SPOKE WITH WERE UNAWARE THAT THIS WAS ON THE BOOKS.
IS NOT
SOMETHING THAT WAS TAUGHT IN POLICE ACADEMIES.
IT IS STILL
SOMETHING THEY NEED TO RE-EXAMINE.
MY HOPE WOULD BE
MOVING FORWARD WITH THE BILL IS THAT NOT ONLY DO THEY MAN THIS
LAW, BUT LOOK BACK AT THE WORDING IN REGARDS TO HUMAN
TRAFFICKING AND PROTECTIONS FOR PROSTITUTES AND SEX WORKERS.
I
THINK THE UNITED STATES IS FAR
BEHIND PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THE SEX INDUSTRY.
IT IS HUMAN DECENCY HERE.
I AM HOPING IT IS WHAT WE CAN SEE.
I
AM HOPING MICHIGAN WILL NOW ROLLBACK THIS LAW.
I CAN'T
IMAGINE WHAT THE CAMPAIGN ADS WOULD LOOK LIKE ON LOCAL ACCESS
TV.
JUST SAY NO SO I CAN SAY YES.
WHAT?
NO.