Posted on 05/20/2007 10:20:08 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
The Houston Police Department's Vice Squad is putting together plans to start raiding dozens of the city's sexually oriented businesses. That crackdown, 11 News has learned, could begin within weeks. Owners of more than 120 topless clubs, modeling studios and adults bookstores in Houston will soon receive a two-page letter from the city's Legal Department. The letter says the businesses are in violation of the city's sexually oriented business ordinance; too close to neighborhoods, schools or parks. The City of Houston has spent more than $1.3 million in court costs over the last decade fighting to enforce this ordinance. Now, it appears HPD might soon take action. "Captain [Steve] Jett and the vice division have been working on an enforcement plan," said Don Cheatham, General Counsel for the city's Legal Department. "At this point I would tell you I'm not privy to it. But I would expect some action in a period of weeks." Owners and operators of the targeted businesses could face up to a $4,000 dollar fine and a year in jail unless they close down or move. Neither attorneys nor owners for several establishments returned our phone calls. But they're reportedly not giving up their legal fight.
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its all part of the W.O.S. (war on strippers)
Thought you fellas would like this.
So what percentage of the strippers are illegal immigrants?
“Houston Police Department strip club crackdown planned”
I didn’t know the Houston Police Department had a strip club.
I don’t know. How do you say lap dance in Spanish anyway?
Good one.
GOOD GOD!!!
What a waste of LEA money and resources!
Once more HYPOCRISY of the Moral Maroons!
Strip clubs are victimless “crimes” unless you consider those who waste a lot of money there ‘victims”...but that is a personal decision in a free country.
legalize strip clubs and prostitution in specific areas and we will save money on police, cut down on underground crime and put the money to better use or cut taxes!
Now, if you don’t want to do the above. Then have a raid, and arrest every customer and put them on TV. then it wouldn’t be hypocritical at least.
good. This is an excellent way to administrate strip clubs out of existence, or at least crowd them all into one district, as Giuliani did in NYC.
I didn’t know that Houston had ANY zoning ordinances.
Maybe they should just install some strip-club cameras, like the red-light cameras, to keep an eye on things at the clubs and issue citations?
So I guess drugs and other criminal matters have been taken care...
These establishments should start serving coffee and donuts. hehe
At least the girls in the strip clubs earn a living the capitalist way instead of suckling on the government breast.
I would prefer that the Houston Police Department spend the resources and time investigating welfare rip-offs.
HPD has a strip club?? Geez, I worked for the wrong department!
Damn you. LOL!
17 posts and no pictures! We have rules people.
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Watch in amazement as posters here, a conservative website, defend those who sell sex and vice. Speak up please and defend morality! If we can shame people into not smoking, we ought to be able to return the opprobrium once associated with vice and push it back into the cesspools and away from decent people.
...Strip clubs are victimless “crimes” ...Nonsense. They are drug-ridden dens of prostitution. They lead people into hell.
Houston has cleaned up all of the Katrina crime and is moving on to the more pressing matter of unlawful gyrations in a sexually provocative manner. /s
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