Lingerie Store Raid Options

[Psykopath]

http://www.kamc28.tv/news/default.asp?mode...ews&id=2323

The crack-down on sexually oriented businesses continues, this time, targeting a local lingerie shop.
Police raided the Somethin’ Sexy lingerie store at 53rd and Slide and arrested the clerk. The law states, you can`t have more than six of the same sexual item for sale. Several explicit items were confiscated during the raid.

The owner, who asked to remain anonymous, says the raid is a waste of resources.

"I think it`s unfair, I think it`s old fashioned” he says. “I`m sure they`ll be several people who will agree that the raid was necessary and these items should not be sold in Lubbock. But I also think a lot of people think that this is wasted man hour by the police department."

No court date has been set for the store clerk. But if convicted, she would have to register as a sex offender.

The shop remains open and the owner says they are selling everything that`s legal.

Strip Clubs, Chippendale's, Lingerie Shops...

Seriously, Lubbock...you backwards-ass, hick fucking community of fundamentalist bible-thumpers.... Is there not any better way to spend those police resources?!?

FUCK

[James]

I highly doubt that this was their top priority but more of a media's priority. Has no one heard of multi-tasking? Not like it took a lot of manpower to "raid" one store with one employee.

[Psykopath]

I highly doubt that this was their top priority but more of a media's priority. Has no one heard of multi-tasking? Not like it took a lot of manpower to "raid" one store with one employee.

According to the news, 4 patrol cars took part in the "raid."

But hey, I didn't see it on Fox News so it was probably a lie...Because you just KNOW this city doesn't waste man power/resources at all! I mean, they only used 8+ officers, a paddy wagon, and leg irons for the Chippendale's fiasco. That wasn't over the line at all either.

[James]

According to the news, 4 patrol cars took part in the "raid."

But hey, I didn't see it on Fox News so it was probably a lie...Because you just KNOW this city doesn't waste man power/resources at all! I mean, they only used 8+ officers, a paddy wagon, and leg irons for the Chippendale's fiasco. That wasn't over the line at all either.

Four patrol cars That's four to eight officers. Not a lot considering they may not have known who or what was in the building at the time. And again, if they're going to try and put someone on the sex offender list, then there's more to this story than has been reported.

I don't know where you come off with the Fox News joke. I don't recall ever saying that. When I referred to the media, I was referring to the issue of them exaggerating the news to pique viewer interest. I'm sure drug arrests happen all the time, but what do people want to hear about more - the drug bust that happens at least once a week and is repetitive or the sex shop getting "raided" and removing a new kind of bad element from town (Hint: it's the latter; that's why it's called news instead of repetitives).

If I recall correctly, didn't the bar that Chippendale's was performing in at the time contain people? Lots of people? If so, then you should have no problem taking 8+ officers to the property in order to better guarantee the safety of the officers. The mob is very fickle and very dangerous. Paddy wagon, easier transportation, duh. Leg irons, probably excessive, but also probably mandatory by TCLEOS for larger arrests, again, for the officer's safety.

[JRockTTU]

Four patrol cars That's four to eight officers. Not a lot considering they may not have known who or what was in the building at the time. And again, if they're going to try and put someone on the sex offender list, then there's more to this story than has been reported.

I don't know where you come off with the Fox News joke. I don't recall ever saying that. When I referred to the media, I was referring to the issue of them exaggerating the news to pique viewer interest. I'm sure drug arrests happen all the time, but what do people want to hear about more - the drug bust that happens at least once a week and is repetitive or the sex shop getting "raided" and removing a new kind of bad element from town (Hint: it's the latter; that's why it's called news instead of repetitives).

If I recall correctly, didn't the bar that Chippendale's was performing in at the time contain people? Lots of people? If so, then you should have no problem taking 8+ officers to the property in order to better guarantee the safety of the officers. The mob is very fickle and very dangerous. Paddy wagon, easier transportation, duh. Leg irons, probably excessive, but also probably mandatory by TCLEOS for larger arrests, again, for the officer's safety.

I don't know how many patrol cars they had, but they "raided" it with 4 uniformed officers. The sex toys were in a hidden location that one would have to ask to see before they were shown the items. An undercover officer went in the night before the raid and asked to see the items. He purchased a dildo (or vibrator, don't remember) from the clerk working at the store. The next day they took 4 cops up there to bust the joint and confiscate all of the sex toys. So now not only are we using 4 cops to bust a store that discreetly sells items to be used in the privacy of one's home, we are also using the manpower of undercover officers!

I'm a conservative individual, but my fiance's car got a cinder block thrown at it a month ago and caused over $2000 in damage while it was parked in front of our house on a thursday night. I'm glad to see that the police are more concerned about people masturbating than they are finding people who are doing property damage (6 blocks from the Somethin' Sexy, 3 away from Jake's). I'm fed up with this bullshit that they enforce their laws to stifle the "moral corruption" in Lubbock, all of the moral corruption I see is in city hall.

Impala: It's not a city ordinance, it's a state law about the sex toys. The funny thing is that no other city seems to enforce the law because they have bigger fish to fry. The city is just selectively enforcing these sex laws instead of things that actually hurt people. There have been a few scattered cases of this being enforced in Texas, but not many. One of them involved an undercover cop busting one of those sex toy parties that women have (like tupperware parties but with fake dicks).

I can link my sources after work if you need more info on where I got my facts.