Seattle-area pigs are once again rooting in sex workers’ business:
[Cops] with the Bellevue Police Department’s vice [gang] have joined [the TNA board] in an effort to [trick] sex workers. [Cops]…want to [trick escorts who were] victims of violent crimes [into thinking] that they will not be in trouble if they [call the cops, despite mountains of evidence that this is not true even for non-sex workers]…The post…reads in part, “This is not a setup… it’s an attempt to break down barriers that may prevent individuals from reporting crimes against them”…[TNA banned the account fairly quickly, though cops didn’t bother telling badge-licking local reporters that part]…”The Bellevue vice unit’s effort…shows law enforcement can take the first step to build a different relationship,” said Rob Spectre, CEO of ChildSafe.AI, a company that creates [bots and other] software to help [cops target and arrest sex workers and clients]…
If any of you are young, inexperienced or foolish enough to believe this, would you please look at the name of the fucking pig herd they have doing this? “Vice unit“. Not “homicide unit” or “domestic violence unit” or “crimes against women unit“; vice. These are the same sexual predators who participated in the destruction of TRB, weaving racist fantasies about how Korean escorts were “sex slaves” and hounding one man literally to death. Bellevue vice pigs have arrested hundreds of men using tactics that were illegal under Washington law; do you honestly believe they’ve turned over a new leaf in only two years? (P.S. – They didn’t even bother to wait until this posted to prove me right.) Do you really think that a violent gang whose spokespig oinked only a few years ago, ”Prostitution in our city is not going to be tolerated,” and who described sex workers as “chronic nuisances”, really and truly cares about your welfare? Do you actually imagine that if these cops had good intentions they’d be posting on a fucking hooker board instead of officially reaching out to well-known and often-interviewed public activists who live in this county? Of course not, because (as one sex worker pointed out in the thread) they don’t want to talk to people who have lawyers and media training and are practiced in dealing with them; they want to trick the unwary into email communication, possibly so malware written by “Childsafe” can be loaded into their computers to mine their clients (and other escorts’) contact information, in preparation for a client pogrom that will make their past efforts look minor and give them the opportunity to strut in front of TV cameras oinking about how many “sex slaves” they rescued from “pimps”.
Please, y’all, don’t be stupid; two clients (both of whom live in Bellevue, surprise surprise) have recently contacted me after receiving texts from bots designed to look like budget-range escorts soliciting them, and I wouldn’t be surprised if “Childsafe” weren’t the culprits behind them (paid by guess who). I get that y’all are nervous and want to believe that maybe the wholesale predation is over, but you know what? The cops get that too. And they don’t have any scruples that would prevent them from taking advantage of it.
Like the King County Sheriff and Prosecutors office, the Bellevue police department received lots of media training from Demand Abolition in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (along with some money). This looks like a typical police PR stunt right out of the Demand Abolition playbook.
During the TRB press conference in 2016, former narc and vice cop Chief Mylett said to reporters with a practiced tear in his eye that “I want all prostituted women to know they can call me” at the same time they had actively restricted SWOP members to the lobby to ensure they would not challenge his sick, twisted view of sex work in front of the press.
TNA is already known by it’s members to be infested with vice cops posting as customers and making the most vile comments they would never allow to be attributed to them in the press. This well groomed for media consumption post was clearly created, screen shot and sent to the press by the Bellevue police PR team (do you really think a journalist actively did the research to dig this screen shot on a private board like TNA?) unlike their regular sleazy posts they would be too embarrassed to admit to. Is this really how we want the police spending their time when they can’t seem to find it in their schedule to process a large backlog of untested rape kits?
I think most Bellevue sex workers would agree that having tax payer funded sex with an undercover cop, having all their money stolen through asset forfeiture, being handcuffed, photographed and generally humiliated, saddled with the debt of very expensive broken lease that then forces them into survival sex is not being “saved” or “helped” no matter how many posts like this the Bellevue Police release for media/public consumption.
Examples of the Bellevue police department exploiting sex workers are too numerous to count, but in just one example a group of Thai sex workers in 2011 were encouraged by gullible customers to come forward to the Bellevue police to report a group of 3 armed thugs that were raping and robbing them aatt gun point. The Bellevue police department as usual promised not to arrest the thai sex workers if they would cooperate, but of course came back 1-2 years later with the intel they had collected to have undercover sex with these Thai women before steal all their money and leaving them homeless and penniless. Now sex work was no longer a choice.
https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Feds-Woman-ran-prostitutes-out-of-Eastside-4327667.php
One correction, sweetie: The screenshot was by me. As you say, there’s no way reporters could be bothered.
You’re right! It appears the police provided information about the TNA post to KIRO, but they do not actually show the post in the puff piece:
‘This is not a setup’: Bellevue police join prostitution chat forum to help sex workers
“The post by police in the forum reads in part, “This is not a setup… it’s an attempt to break down barriers that may prevent individuals from reporting crimes against them.”
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/this-is-not-a-setup-bellevue-police-join-prostitution-chat-forum-to-help-sex-workers/1005848591
Yeah, and the Nazis were helping Jews, Communists, Homosexuals, Intellectuals, Gypsies, et al., to resettle in a safe place like Aushcwitz and Mathausen.
You nailed it freegird.
In fact, the Nazi’s released plenty of film footage to the press designed to make their ghettos look like a German Club Med. The communists regularly employed the very same re-education camps in their gulags that “progressives” in the US now employ in the form of John Schools. Like the communists, American law enforcement profits directly from the money paid to these John schools since they get a cut of the money paid for the forced sexual conversion therapy.
The tools of power never change, only the labels. Those in power always control the narrative and not only silence their critics, but use the press to place statements in their mouths they never made. The press will always ask the police and prosecutors what you said and never consult you on whether the facts, or the statement attributed to you is accurate.
The criminal system does not offer the peace of understanding and equality, but the simple authoritarian domination of “agree with me publicly, or prepare to have your life destroyed. you will say and do whatever supports our narrative, or prepare to suffer greater punishment. The press belongs to us, so we will simply use them to silence anything you say that contradicts our version of events.
The criminal system is designed to destroy communities and replace them with a desert. That is the only “understanding” and “peace” they ever offer.
If you don’t mind me asking, how did they get your clients’ contact info?
Frankly, that’s an incredibly stupid question. How the fuck am I supposed to know where pigs rooted up some data? My guess is it was done by data-mining from TNA or some sleazy porn site they visited via some software developed by Childsafe.
Dear Ms. McNeill,
They could probably do that if they knew that your client was a member of said board. Or on a lark their software, which has a conflated name, has access to a database that your client was a member of. That among several other reasons is why you are withdrawing from cyberspace with respect to your advertising venues. Not that I need to tell you that but the more that you are in cyberspace as an entrepreneur in this federally sanctioned and discriminatory age the greater chance you will have of being monitored. That is especially true with someone of your high profile being intelligent and outspoken as a sex worker. That is why if they are really out to get someone you would be extremely high on the list.
Just the opposite. They don’t want to attack prominent activists because we have media connections. The “sex trafficking” hysteria that is fueling this monumental gravy train depends upon maintaining the lie that sex workers are all victims, so they don’t want some well-connected Jane Roe who will bring in high-powered lawyers who might topple the whole scam in SCOTUS. Nope; they want to victimize women who lack connections, media charisma, and often even the ability to speak English, so they can keep up the ridiculous and racist “sex slave” lies that keep the money flowing.
You nailed it on the head, Maggie.
first of all Maggie, be careful.
Second, is their even one state legislator out there who is sympathetic to sex workers, and could be persuaded to introduce “An Act to Decriminalize Prostitution”? You’ve got to get the ball rolling somehow, and a mass movement to introduce such a bill around the country this election year seems like a possibility.