Porno Patrons Say They're Being Twinked Into John Charges

Speaker Christine Quinn wants to get to the bottom of series of allegedly false arrests that she calls "the most egregious I have heard of," where officers are accused of luring gay men at porn shops into trumped up charges of prostitution. For months NYPD has allegedly been using "handsome young undercover cops" to solicit (consensual) sex out of middle-aged gay men and then arresting them for prostitution as they exit the store. At a town hall meeting last month, one man described the scenario where after agreeing to go home with the young man, "He said, 'I want to pay you $50 [to have sex].' I didn't respond, but I thought it was strange." Once accosted by police outside he said, "I thought I'd been set up by a gang...They handcuffed me and said, 'Why the f--- do you think we're arresting you—loitering for the purpose of prostitution.'" Some believe that the city may be using the arrests to shut down sex shops under the "nuisance abatement law," which led the city to sue Unicorn in Chelsea last month.

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By Billy Parker in News on February 2, 2009 3:52 PM

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Clarice City

Did NYPD officers have some kind of voting process to determine who made the cut for "most hansome"? Did they also select a Constuction worker, a biker and a native american?

NannyState

I think it was at the exact moment those cops were "shaking down homos" that Bernie Madoff stole nearly $50 billion.

handsomedevil

Oh hey, look at this blog story. I'm sure I can make a funny pun about that another asinine NYPD entrapment plan, "Operation Lucky Bag."

Oh wait, no I can't. That won't work well at all.

ed_Extinct

sounds like a good majority of the 3 billion plastic bags may be at this place.

Rocknrope

This doesn't make sense. The guy interviewed said he didn't respond to the proposition, so they arrested him? The equivalent is me getting propositioned by a hooker, turning her down, and then getting arrested for soliciation. WTF?

jaycjay

Actually, the equivalent would be an undercover policewoman offering to pay you to have sex with her, turning her down, and still you being arrested for prostitution, not for soliciting a prostitute.

The claim the guy is making is that they're being set up for charges of selling sex, not buying.