imho, this cop got more than he bargained for. do you think he enjoys these types of operations? they are trying to curb this type of behavior. the best way to do that is to hammer the location hard and arrest everyone. then, the location will get a lot of negative buzz by word of mouth and the internet and people will avoid the location.
you have successfully dealt with that particular condition and someone else has to deal with it. they know these people aren't "criminals" but the quality of life issue needs to be dealt with.
so you get them all to plead down to DIS CON and you'll never see them again. problem solved.
but then you get a high profile offender and your methods are scrutinized and held up to the legal lamp, which can burn pretty hot.
bottom line for me: deft wanted gay sex. got caught in a shotty, hodge-podge operation.
imho, the cops should have called a big supervisor to the scene and made it all go away on the spot. the cops do have discretion in cases like this one. should have let this guy go but let him go after a very long lecture that scared the daylights out of him.
It seems to me that there might be better ways to deal with this behavior. I don’t like it either. The mayer in Ft. Lauderdale has taken quite a beating over trying to stop it here.
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imho, the cops should have called a big supervisor to the scene and made it all go away on the spot. the cops do have discretion in cases like this one. should have let this guy go but let him go after a very long lecture that scared the daylights out of him.They have discretion but letting someone off because he is a US Senator while charging the others is an abuse of that discretion IMHO.