DEPARTMENT IS FIGHTING LEGISLATION THAT WOULD BAN ANY
SEXUAL CONTACT THEY COULD HAVE WITH SUSPECTED PROSTITUTES.
THAT
SOUNDS BAD ON ITS OWN, BUT THE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY CHIEF TRIES TO
MAKE THE CASE THAT SOMETIMES SEXUAL TOUCHING IS REALLY
IMPORTANT IN A STING OPERATION.
LET ME GIVE YOU DETAILS.
>>BASICALLY IT IS SAYING IF I AM A COP AND ALASKA HOW CAN I DO MY
JOB WITHOUT FOLLOWING PROSTITUTES?
>> HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS IN SOME OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS.
THE SEX
WORKER WANTS TO PROVE THIS PERSON IS NOT A COP SO THEY WILL
SAY THEN TOUCH ME.
CASE LAYS OUT A HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION.
THIS
SEEMS LIKE A STRONG STATEMENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF I BELIEVE THAT.
WHY ARE YOU WASTING RESOURCES GOING AFTER SEX WORKERS?
WHY?
ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW THE ONLY FORM OF PROSTITUTION THAT IS LEGAL IN
THIS COUNTRY'S POLITICAL PROSTITUTION?
BUT WHEN YOU HAVE
TWO CONSENTING ADULTS EXCHANGING MONEY FOR SEX THAT IS NOT OKAY.
>>THEY SHOULD USE THE POLITICIAN DEFENSE.
THEY DIDN'T PAY ME FOR
SEX, MONEY IS SPEECH.
THEY WERE JUST TALKING TO ME.
THEY WERE
JUST TALKING TO MY BREASTS, AND LATER THE REST OF MY BODY.
MONEY IS JUST SPEECH.
>> IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY LAWS WORK IN ALASKA YOU NEED
TO KNOW IT IS NOT ILLEGAL FOR A COP TO HAVE SEX, FULL ON SEX,
WITH A SUSPECTED SEX WORKER.
THE ONLY TIME IT IS ILLEGAL IS IF A
SUSPECT IS ALREADY IN CUSTODY.
THIS LEGISLATION WOULD HAVE
CHANGED OR TAKEN CARE OF THAT LOOPHOLE.
THERE WAS SO MUCH
PUSHBACK THAT DEMOCRATS WERE LIKE JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
THE
COPS ARE SAYING WE ARE NOT HAVING SEX WITH THESE SUSPECTS.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THIS KIND OF STUFF HAPPENS IN OTHER STATES AS
WELL.
>> LOOK, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT SHE IS A PROSTITUTE UNTIL YOU
ORGASM?
IN ALASKA THEY SAY DON'T WORRY COPS USE THIS IN VERY
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES, ONLY WHEN THEY ARE REALLY HORNY.
>>I WANT THEM TO FOLKS AND OTHER THINGS NOT STING OPERATIONS
FOCUSED ON SEX WORKERS.
IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR ARREST RECORDS
THEY ARE NOT LYING.
THEY HAVE NOT ARRESTED VERY MANY SEX
WORKERS ANYWAY AS OF LATE.
>>THAT'S BECAUSE THERE IS LIKE 13 PEOPLE IN ALASKA.
>> I JUST THINK THAT LOOPHOLE IS WEIRD.
I THINK A LOT OF
AUTHORITIES WANT SHORTCUTS.
THEY WANT THE BACK DOOR TO ENCRYPTION
WITH CELL PHONES BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO DO ANY HEAVY
LIFTING.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING?
>> IS THAT ALSO LEGAL AND ALASKA?
>>I DON'T KNOW IT IS A STRANGE PLACE.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A
NO SEX, I'M TALKING ABOUT LOOPHOLES TO ENCRYPTION.
>>LOOPHOLES, IT IS NOT ANOTHER CODEWORD.
FINAL THING, THIS IS
WHAT PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT ON ISSUES DOES.
MICHIGAN UNTIL
APRIL HAVE THE SAME THING.
COPS HAD IMMUNITY FOR HAVING SEX WITH
PROSTITUTES.
IT USED TO BE IN SO MANY OTHER STATES AND SLOWLY
PEOPLE STARTED PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT
ON IT.
>> THERE WAS A CASE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHERE ONE OF THE COPS
WENT TO A MASSAGE PARLOR, GOT A MASSAGE, THEN SIGNALED TO HIS
PRIVATE REGION.
SHE TOUCHED HIS TESTICLES AND THAT WAS WHEN HE
DID SOME SORT OF SIGNAL TO CALL THE COPS.
>> I THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEDUCE THAT BEFORE THE
40 MINUTES.
ANYWAY, CLEAN UP IN AISLE FIVE.