Medford Long Island Massage Parlor Prostitution

This time the customers were the dumb ones.

According to reports, a Suffolk County Massage Parlor was busted after police questioned exiting patrons for  "weeks" as they enjoyed their special massages, using their statements as evidence against the  massage parlor workers. Several Chinese massag parlor workers were charged, some with multiple counts of prostitution and giving massages without a license. The Johns, who where not charged, can happily move on to the next illegal massage parlor business I suppose.

The evidence collected after weeks of such covert interrogation included such dangerous items as lotion,towels, wipes, bedding, and sheet.s Yes, that according to the police as reported:

A search of the parlor yielded massage tables, a bed, $750 and "assorted prostitution-related paraphernalia," which Barone said included lotion, towels, wipes, bedding and sheets.

So you taxpayers can safely surmise that the Suffolk County Police spent weeks serveilling a known to be illegal massage business, interrogating customers who were influenced to incriminate themselves and others in exchange for less embarassment, only to later bust this business where little had apparently gone on beyond hand jobs for those who were looking for it and willing to pay an extra $60 to $100.

I have to wonder why it is ok for Police to apparently wait and wait and wait, spending taxpayer money, hoping that eventually a bigger crime will be committed, instead of acting on the known crime of illegal massage business. After all, if the law against illegal massage was meant to protect the public from illegal, unlicensed massage, why do th epolice allow it to continue? Can all of those customers, who went in to a known illegal massage business, claim the Police acted negligently by allowing it?

All I am saying is, an illegal business should be shut down as soon as it can be shut down, AND we should not tolerate the bs of politicians and police trying and hoping for more colorful crimes they can publicize.

The report started this way:

Ending a weeks-long stakeout in which massage parlor customers leaving a Medford strip mall were stopped and grilled about what they did with masseuses, Suffolk police arrested three women Saturday on charges that they gave illegal massages and prostitution services at Acupuncture Qi-Gong Tui Na, authorities said.

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[Stalker]

An LAPD cop told me once that he could take me to ANY block in the city and show me nearly ANY type of petty crime possible being committed right in front of us. In San Francisco, I've watched hookers and pimps go about their business in broad daylight while black and whites drove by, uninterested.
The decision to crack down on a particular behavior at a given time, as long as it doesn't pose a grave threat to the public (like our favorite and harmless activity), is political.

The legal system is nothing but a game in which cops are pawns. They know their community and little escapes them, but they look the other way until the orders come. And the orders come because someone needs to make a headline or some asshole complained (customer, neighbor, or even competing MP, I've heard).