#@*$ 'em, Danno: Hawaii cops get free ride with hookers

I Should Coco · Mar 21, 2014

We're having fun with this one in the newsroom tonight ... apparently, Hawaii police officers who are working undercover have a legal exemption that allows them to have sex with prostitutes.

From the AP story:

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers flabbergasted at the prospect of police being allowed to have sex with prostitutes promised Friday to make the practice illegal.

Senate Judicial Committee Chairman Clayton Hee said he planned to get rid of an exemption in the state's prostitution law that permits police to have sex as part of an investigation. His announcement at a committee hearing followed expressions of outrage after police had lobbied lawmakers to keep the exemption.

"I will tell you that without question I can't imagine police officers being exempt from the law," Hee said Friday. "To condone police officers' sexual penetration in making arrests is simply nonsensical to me."

State legislators have been working to revamp Hawaii's decades-old law against prostitution. They toughened penalties against pimps and those who use prostitutes, and they also originally proposed scrapping the sex exemption for officers on duty.

But Honolulu police told lawmakers last month that they needed the legal protection to catch lawbreakers in the act. Otherwise, they argued, prostitutes would insist on sex to identify undercover officers. The legislation was then amended to restore the protection and the revised proposal passed the House and is now before the Senate.
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Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hawaii-law-lets-police-have-sex-with-prostitutes/2014/03/20/75b9a0e8-b093-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html

Insert Hawaii 5-O jokes here ...

Songbird · Mar 22, 2014

Operation Hook, Line and Sink Her

Jake_Taylor · Mar 22, 2014

In related news, thousands of officers with undercover experience have sent applications to the Honolulu PD.

DeskMonkey1 · Mar 22, 2014

He's got a point. If they are exempt to one law....

HanSenSE · Mar 22, 2014

Brings new meaning to ordering Sex on the Beach.

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