Posted on 04/13/2006 1:10:05 PM PDT by weegee
Great Moments in Police Work
Officers of the Texas City Police Department were conducting a prostitution sting April 4. Things were going well -- eventually six hookers were arrested, no doubt the first step toward forever eradicating the problem of prostitution on the Gulf Coast.
Around midnight, according to police, the officers observed a Texas City PD patrol car pull up to one of the women posing as a working girl. TCPD officer Lee Marshall, a two-year veteran of the force, was later charged with the class B misdemeanor of solicitation of prostitution.
The department is not talking about the incident, beyond the bare bones contained in the arrest report and brief statements Chief Robert Burby made to The Galveston County Daily News.
If only they would answer questions; there are so many. First -- and it's not really a question, but -- He pulled up in a patrol car? Ballsy. (Burby did tell Hair Balls that Marshall was off-duty at the time.)
More important: Although Burby wouldn't confirm it, the arrest info indicates this was a sting run by TCPD. The department's Web site lists about 25 officers. A group shot on the home page shows very few are women. Didn't Marshall recognize his fellow officer? We guess a skanky wig and a miniskirt go a long way.
That must have been one embarrassing moment when the sting was pulled: "Umm, Lee? I work a couple of desks down from you. You're under arrest."
Marshall, who could not be contacted, has been suspended with pay.
You know what every taxpayer WORKING in the private sector (aka real world) is?
A sap...a total sap.
Even though this scumbag cop may (but don't bet on it) get kicked off the force, he'll wind up somewhere in parasite land after attending some sexual 12 step program (paid, of course, by us saps).
His sap financed lottery public pension -- with sap financed health care -- will be right on schedule at age 50.
I hate this f...... country!
They're only doing the work Americans refuse to do...
I love this Country. I just think our government/law enforcement is damn near the exact opposite of what it should be.
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