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Houston Police Department strip club crackdown planned
KHOU Channel 11 News ^ | 5/19/2007 | Jason Whitely

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: funpolice; leo; morality; nannystate; stripclub; vice
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Ridiculous! Half the customers of these clubs are cops. This just lets them use our tax dollars to tip the girls. Also lets them shake the girls down for sex - more than usual.
41 posted on 05/20/2007 1:56:32 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: M203M4

The Camel Toe! ROFLMAO.

No wonder why these men in the Middle East are so pissed off and blow themselves up. If you saw nothing but old women in Burqas all day instead of pretty girls in mini-skirts you might strap yourself up with a bomb too.


42 posted on 05/20/2007 2:06:35 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Arrowhead1952; Xenalyte

So glad you warned me, you know, since I spend so much time in these places... lol


43 posted on 05/20/2007 3:17:52 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy met his third wife when he was cheating on his first wife with his second wife." Jay Leno)
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To: narses
They lead people into hell.

So does shopping on Sunday, but they got rid of the Blue Laws...

Mark

44 posted on 05/20/2007 4:19:16 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: narses

As I said....”ILLEGAL” strip clubs encourage crime, drugs and illegal prostitution.

You just made my case. A legal strip club ‘s only victims are the customers who pay the money.


45 posted on 05/20/2007 5:53:34 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: don-o

I agree with limiting WHERE they can be.
You are right about that.


46 posted on 05/20/2007 5:55:48 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: seowulf

Uh, yeah, right you are. Make something “illicit’ and the demand goes up and so does the price!


47 posted on 05/20/2007 5:57:12 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: narses
If we can shame people into not smoking . .

Yeah, right The number of Americans who smoke has dropped in the past few years because "we" shamed them into quitting that nasty habit.

You don't think smoking bans and high taxes on cigarettes might have had something to do with it?

There is a subset of "conservative" thought that insists everyone comply with their particular, mostly puritanical standards of conduct -- or else. These people won't settle for moral suasion, or "shaming" the miscreants into behaving as prescribed by the mullahs of morality. No, that's too much work for too little satisfaction.

Rather, like the prohibitionists of old, they would enact laws to prohibit what they find offensive, such as smoking in public. And strip clubs. And the list goes on.

48 posted on 05/20/2007 5:57:15 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

“A legal strip club ‘s only victims are the customers who pay the money.”

And the drug-addict ‘performers’ who descend into the pit. And the johns they infect and roll. And the children they abort.


49 posted on 05/20/2007 6:02:54 PM PDT by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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To: narses; Chieftain

The johns ought to be more careful...

Now you bring up other issues that would have nothing to do with “strip clubs”...drug addiction and prostitution.

The “johns” at the Bunny Ranch out side of Reno are not “infected” nor “rolled.” The women who work there are not ‘drug addicted”...but then, that is because prostitution in that area is legal...avoiding disease, addiction and crime.

Abortion happens to suburban housewives too...so , uh, that is another issue also that is not logically linked to strip clubs.

Trying to legislate morality is usually a road of hypocrisy. ( Oh, those poor victimized johns....funny how they are never arrested and put on TV for patronizing strip clubs...they just get to go home to the suburbs after they are ‘rolled”).

Reality and compassion are a better path to eliminating disease, crime and “vistims”.


50 posted on 05/20/2007 7:13:41 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: logician2u

Thank god...antoher rational voice!!
look out....its rough out here in Moral Maroon Land.


51 posted on 05/20/2007 7:16:05 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I trust that Houston has no potholes in the streets or crime, otherwise, these would be matters of concern.


52 posted on 05/20/2007 8:02:42 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: 38special

I feel it would be my public duty to volunteer to watch those cameras for any violations of the law. I really don’t want to subject myself to such debased, oily, naked, bouncing, titillation, but to ensure a more wholesome future for society I will make that sacrifice. :)


53 posted on 05/20/2007 10:15:26 PM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I’ve “seen” you on threads like this and I was just making a joke. I know you’d never visit places like this.


54 posted on 05/21/2007 4:35:49 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns don't kill people. None of my guns ever left the house at night and killed anyone.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I’m glad to hear that the murder, car theft, rape, gang violence, and armed robberies are down in Houston to the point that the citizen’s funds can now be used to crack down on Titty-bars!


55 posted on 05/21/2007 5:39:26 AM PDT by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Strip clubs are victimless “crimes” unless you consider those who waste a lot of money there ‘victims”

The issue is not that there are strip clubs at all, but that they are violating ordiances about being too close to neighborhoods, etc. You may not have noticed, but if a strip club opens in or close to a neighborhood, it goes downhill fast, inviting in all kinds of human 'vermin.'

If you want to live close to a strip club, more power to ya. Just keep it out of my neighborhood.

56 posted on 05/21/2007 5:41:58 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I’ve been there.


57 posted on 05/21/2007 5:44:12 AM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: narses

They lead people into hell.

So do public beaches that allow bathing suits that don’t cover head to toe, down the the ankel and up to the wrist. Men may look at a woman’s curves with lust and commit adultry in his heart, and James tells us if you are guilty of breaking one portion of the LAW you are guilty of all.

How many hours has our prayer group spent praying about that, how much have you done to support that?

You are a Christofascist and don’t comprehend the law of sin and death nor the gospel.


58 posted on 05/21/2007 5:45:23 AM PDT by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Meanwhile...back at the ranch.....

Illegals import narcotics by the truckload...but have no fear....our vice officers are protecting us from these dens of sin....and the fatal effects of viewing the female breast.....

Unlike chasing down and arresting heavily armed drug-thugs, the arrest of a nude dancer can cause the dangerous priapism reaction in vice officers.......

59 posted on 05/21/2007 5:50:13 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: MEGoody
You may not have noticed, but if a strip club opens in or close to a neighborhood, it goes downhill fast, inviting in all kinds of human 'vermin.'

I would not wish to live behind one either

...but to say that neighborhoods suffer property valuation degradation is suspect...the most successful men's club in Houston, Treasures, is in the tony Galleria area and has liquor sales of $58,140,822 per year, pays $8,139,715 in State taxes, plus $872,113 in city/county taxes....while property values around it soar....go figure.

60 posted on 05/21/2007 5:55:38 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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