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- thecatcantalk, on 11/04/2007, -6/+939Wow, the cops expected a judge to believe that Mr. Palacios actually tried to pick up a prostitute while travelling crosstown WITH his wife and college-age daughter IN the car. No wonder the D.A. dropped the charges.
As for the officers...hmm, let's see; false arrest, kidnapping, wrongful and/or false imprisonment, criminal threatening, falsifying an official document, misuse of an official vehicle in the commission of multiple felonies. Go to prison. Go directly to prison. Do not pass go, do not collect severance pay, or paid leave. Scum. Sue the bastards, lock them up in PMITA prison. - tropican8, on 11/04/2007, -3/+762"I'm so lucky I was with my wife -- imagine if I had to try to tell her and she wasn't with me. She'd never believe me. Never."
Imagine how many marriages have been unjustly ruined by these people. - reeder, on 11/04/2007, -2/+478Got to love the Chicago Police Department. Corrupt - As - *****.
- johndi, on 11/04/2007, -2/+443Don't forget they stole his car and are extorting him for $4,700 to get it back.
- Kronos6948, on 11/04/2007, -6/+386$25 for sex? Sheesh! How ugly and needy are Chicago's prostitutes?? I mean, here in Philly, you're lucky if $25 gets you a handjob....
not that I'd know or anything...just a guess.... - Hyperion1144, on 11/04/2007, -6/+346More cops abusing power. What, do we need to have every citizen in the nation carrying a camcorder 24-7 to monitor these bastards, or what?!?! Protect and SERVE, not abuse!
- leetleo, on 11/04/2007, -2/+324"The city wants more than $4,700 in towing and storage fees if he wants the car back."
4,700 bucks to tow a ***** car? My car isn't even WORTH $4,700.
*****. - saraht578, on 11/04/2007, -0/+283I don't know much about the law, but it seems to me that if charges are dropped, they can't keep your damn car.
- rprouse, on 11/04/2007, -1/+249He is just lucky his wife was with him. If he didn't have a witness, he would have a criminal record now. It says that the police report states that he solicited sex, obviously a lie. If it wasn't for his wife, who would the judge believe? That is three stories like this on Digg this week alone! When are people going to start demanding change?
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+213Wait a minute - read the end there:
"City officials declined to comment on the status of the familys car and the Palacios case, while the undercover female officer involved in the arrest couldnt be reached."
So the "prostitute" wasn't even a real prostitute - it was an undercover cop? They should ***** know better. - chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -1/+185I hope the Guy successfully sues the City
- Corinthos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+180I got held once for 45 minutes because I talked to an undercover officer in a sting. The thing was I was walking to the gas station at 2 in the morning in not a good area but that was my business. Then some chick asked me if I had the time and I stopped and told her and she struck up a conversation with me. In my head it didn't even strike me that she was supposed to be a prostitute because she didn't look all cracked out like they do in that neighborhood. Not once was anything about sex, she asked me if I had any money and I told her yeah but only 5 because I was going to the gas station to buy smokes. Then I left and got to the corner and then two squad cars pull up and blocked me from crossing the street.
I guess they just had nothing better to do then harass me. They asked me why I stopped to talk to her and I was like "its 2 am and I was bored" then tried to tell me I propositioned her for 5 dollars and I was like *****. Then a cop tells me that he is going to cuff me for their protection. I was like whatever.. I'm 5'10 and 140 and you have guns. Then I get seated in the back of the car while they run my name and make me sit forever. Then the undercover comes up and IDs me and the one talking to her. Then they go off and talk to each other. Then an officer comes back and lets me out and uncuffs me and calls me a ***** dumb ass for talking to her. I told him umm she was a kind of hot chick talking to me at 2 am and I might've tried to get her number if after I started talkin to her she acted all weird. Seriously the girl had a big coat on but she was probably a 7 out of 10 and probably someone fun to hit the clubs with. Plus she was a white girl standing by herself at 2 am in a 90% black part of town. It wasn't a corner, it was the middle of the block and I thought she just lived at the house she was in front of. She had too many teeth to be a prostitute in that area. - theghoul, on 11/04/2007, -3/+176every case those cops ever worked on should be reopened.
- esjaydee, on 11/04/2007, -0/+166Not to mention, it's stories like this that will make good Samaritans think twice before stopping to help a "woman in distress." These stings cause more harm than good, no doubt.
- mpredosin, on 10/10/2007, -22/+168Why isn't this story getting digged up? It should be on the front page.
- joebrender, on 11/04/2007, -4/+129Yeah, but they are the police, so they have a get out of jail free card.
- JimmyJeep, on 10/12/2007, -24/+147Dugg for that guy trying to pick up a hooker without his wife knowing yet being only 3 feet away. True men of genius, we solute you!
- johnnall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+122I'm not a lawyer or anything but isn't that entrapment? I do watch a lot of cops and one thing I've never seen is the undercover officer offer sex. They just stand on the side of the road and when the guy pulls up she asks what he wants. I would think flagging a car down and then saying "Hey I'll suck you off for 20 bucks" crosses the line.
- joebrender, on 10/10/2007, -4/+113Are the police really misbehaving so badly all over the country? Every third story on Digg seams to be about police being the bad guys. Sheesh.
This poor guy though. Imagine trrying to prove your innocence if he didn't have his whole family with him. He'd be heading to divorce court as well. - luckykpolice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+101The police have to make it affordable so the johns will accept, and they'll get more arrests.
- LetsGoHawks, on 11/04/2007, -13/+111***** the police.
- AJH16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+92Unfortunately, it was towed and impounded, which is considered a service performed on your behalf, so they make you pay. I had a situation like this where my car was towed for being in front of a driveway, made of the same material as the sidewalk, narrow enough to appear to be a walkway, with a gate and a full curb in front of it, with no signs at all. Even after getting off the ticket, I still had to pay almost $180 to get my car back because I had to pay for the towing service. Oh did I mention that my car was towed to the wrong lot and broken in to and my CD player stolen while it was receiving this service.
- cyberdork33, on 10/10/2007, -1/+90Why should there be a fee at all?
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+90What sort or crazy economics lead to only a $5 difference between a BJ and sex?
- oldhick, on 11/04/2007, -0/+83Shows you what you know... The cops can search your car. In the process, they can rip the seats out, tear the carpet up, dismantle the dash, and when they are done and don't find anything, they say "have a nice day" and leave you on the side of the road with a mess. I know because it happened to me. Cost over $1000 to get it all put back together. I sued and the case got thrown out on the grounds that I couldn't show harm... The judge said that was their job and if everyone could sue, how could they get their job done? What????
- theworldisflat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+81Dude needs to get his story out to the masses, pronto. Cockroaches only feel fear when the light is shining down on them..
- chicoer2001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+77Give the car back without any charge. Consider it as a deduction from the millions you'll be paying when he wins.
- kooft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+77@Nougat: That's the thing. This type of aggressive police tactic will only put innocent people in jail. The police shouldn't encourage you to commit a crime just so they can make an arrest. The police should be out preventing crime.
- jxs2151, on 11/04/2007, -2/+77Cops lying? Say it isn't so.....
Until we have more people catching them on tape, their attitude will not change. The police believe (because they have been trained to) that they are judge and jury....infallible in the ways of justice and that their word (and actions) *are* the law.
Judges need to start bitch-slapping these corrupt cops. - ascii63, on 10/10/2007, -1/+76The War on BJs demands that we surrender our good will and the right to talk to strangers. You're either with us, or you're with the prostitutes.
- badtripssuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69Its illegal to talk to women on te street after dark.
- oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68What??? I bet it happens more than you think. And what kind of crime is solicitation anyway? Since when can you not talk out your window to somebody? Since when can the cops arrest you for "pre-crime". Come on asswipe. Stand up for your rights, they're being slowly taken from you every day and you can't just watch 'em go one by one and say "well that one wasn't too important, maybe I'll get pissed about the next one they take from me".
- senorcool, on 10/10/2007, -7/+74Just think of the family trying to explain to the 6 yr old what a prostitute is...It would encompass that sex talk, why people need sex, why some people cant get sex, why some people are driven to sell sex, why it is illegal, etc.
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -0/+66This should tell you that next time this happens and the guys wife is not right there, you should question the cops' stories anyway. I saw several years back an episode of cops where they were doing a prostitution sting. The woman would go up to the drunkest guys she could find leaving the bar and offer them blow-jobs, sex, etc. for money. If they said no she would try to talk them into it, sometimes groping them in the process. At the out-of-the-way hick bars they were doing this at were a lot of guys who you could tell by looking at them have an extremely hard time getting laid. Some of them I wondered if they'd ever had sex. Any time the guy gave in the police arrested him. It was clearly entrapment, they were clearly targeting the most vulnerable people they could find, and they were laughing and bragging it up. With cops like America has, who needs criminals?
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62$20 for an oral, $25 for sex. That's interesting, the relative rates, I mean.
- jwiegmann, on 10/10/2007, -6/+63News Flash: Chicago Police are just as evil and corrupt as all the other police departments. The entire department should be fired for bating people into breaking the law. Consentual sex is not a crime, why should paying for it be? Get off your lazy goddamn asses and go catch some murderers and child rapists you useless pigs.
- decompyler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59"Selling stuff is legal...... ***** is legal......... WHY ISN'T SELLING ***** LEGAL?"
-George Carlin - LeighaThorne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+55My two cents, Just another case of Entrapment gone wrong...or right depending on how you look at it.
- psyjoniz, on 11/04/2007, -1/+54i honestly could not be happier that there is a growing focus on how bad pigs are lately. the abuse of power has been getting further and further out of control. i've mentioned it in other posts, and i'll mention it again - the 'boys club' that all cops end up belonging to is really just a group of bullies that watch out for each other. it is truly a consolidated power, when you think about it. and more often than not, it is used to satiate jollies the pigs enjoy, like pulling someone over and yelling at them for no reason and letting them go. hey, he got to blow off some steam and totally get away with it. but its wrong. and it needs to have more light shed on it. personally i've had nothing but 100% bad experiences with pigs. from being bullied to ticketed improperly to flat out misrepresentation of the truth just to entertain someone's internal monster just looking for a thrill or to have power over someone. the video i watched yesterday on youtube about the cop 'pulling' the kid over (he was already parked) and then yelling and screaming at him for *no* reason whatsoever threatening to make things up to take the kid to jail for. to serve and protect. yeah. my ass.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/10/2007, -3/+56Or anywhere else they have prostitutes and cops.
- Dadelus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+58Isn't that what started this whole mess in the first place?
- nomadxx7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51Humor or ignorance.
Just to clarify ChildeRoland420 he is supposed to pay for the fees because it was an illegal search and seizure resulting from fraudulant charges? Man what kind of America do you want to live in? - oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51You haven't read the reports of the kid with the video rig in his car being threatened by the cops? There are hundreds of other cases... This guy was just lucky he had witnesses to save him. But for you sir, ignorance is bliss.
- jfair, on 10/10/2007, -2/+53Seriously. If the guys wife wasn't RIGHT THERE, I might question his story. As it is, the Chicago police should be ashamed of this blatant abuse of power and waste of taxpayer money.
- ahoyhoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50There's a great documentary out there about this same subject called The Blues Brothers. Give it a watch.
- DooM, on 10/10/2007, -1/+51It's easy to get out of jail when you have the only key.
- 5xSTUN, on 11/04/2007, -4/+53Cops lie all the time. They lie on the witness stand in court (they call it "testi-lying"), they lie in their reports, they lie to their superiors, they lie to people about why they're getting the crap beaten out of them in the streets for no reason.
Genuinely honest cops, and there a few out there, are ostracized from their fellows, and driven off the force ASAP.
No wonder criminal gangs consider the local cops to be nothing more than just a rival criminal gang, albeit one with official sanction and limitless access to weapons. - computergod, on 11/04/2007, -0/+48Forfeiture laws are insane. The law stopped being lawful a long time ago.
- cjh24, on 10/10/2007, -3/+50i live in NZ - prostitution is legal, and is a protected activity- and so it should be, it is after all "the oldest profession"
- canUdi9it, on 11/04/2007, -0/+46Why are they allowed to steal his car after a soliciting arrest? It's not as if it were a DUI. Then they get to charge "storage" fees until the charges exceed the value of the car. After the case was thrown out, the judge should have forced the city to give his car back free of charge. Instead he has to sue to get it back. What a racket. This is legalized theft, extortion, racketeering, etc. I wonder, does car insurance cover theft by police?
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