Topic: Dozens of police failed to pay prostitute for sex. City will pick up tab. - page 2. (Read 947 times)

I don't disagree with your views. I am just saying that the entire system is rotten. The victim has been awarded $1 million as compensation, and in the end she is going to get around 2% of that amount. This is just ridiculous and unjust.

In consumer societies the primary goal is consumption.

To "quantify the role of corruption in wealth of country", maybe important to note that what constitutes wealth is subjective. A person's "belongings" are more "a part of them" amongst consumerists. So where "wealth" is money, people do dirty tricks to get money, and where "wealth" is something else then human ambition manifests differently.

Look at all the churches where "virtue" is "wealth". People will go through all kinds of contortions and corruptions to get their wealth.

Yet its people still have on average one of the highest living standarts on the planet.

Tells you alot.

I have no idea how to quantify the role of corruption in wealth of country, but there are obviously other factors in play. Youd have to try really hard to justify, that US is rich but corrupt, yet countries such as Nigeria or Uruguay are poor... and also corrupt.

People, who misuse public funds and  their office are found around the planet.

This is ridiculous. Just 2% to the victim, and 98% for the blood thirsty lawyer? This incident proves that the United States is being run by various cartels, including those from the judiciary, banks, pharma and firearms.

The difference might be how much detail the public receives.

In 3rd world corruption we usually get every last detail, down to the expensive shoes bought by some corrupt person. In the U.S. we get a very partial picture, but most people understand that heavy details are being left out.

In this case we know

a) The girl was a drug user having sex with dozens of police. It is fairly common for police officers to give drugs to prostitutes, but in this case that possibility was never even investigated.

b) There are so many suspicious details in the 'suicide' that sparked the publicity, yet no credible investigation has been done.

c) The vast majority of police officers involved, despite having sex with an underaged and vulnerable person, faced no discipline.

d) It is almost certain that the scandal was managed to deflect attention away from higher up police officers. The first evidence of this was in the suicide investigation which anybody can research.

e) When something like this happens in a 3rd world country there is usually some credible protest. In this case there was a little 'indignation', but honestly nobody wants to take on police corruption and open themselves up to attack from the Justice Department, whose main task is making sure that police corruption stays out of the news and uninvestigated.

I find this interesting for altogether different reason.

Corruption is again and again mentioned on this board as a reason why poor countries stay poor. Well, this is happening in United States, but unless you are retarded, you dont consider Americans to be enbloc poor folk.

Maybe corruption doesnt matter THAT much in creation of wealth and riches.

Unless, you want to tell me, that Westerners became rich, when they did not know what corruption was.

1) First rule of police work Cops Do Not Pay for Sex on the Job.

2) A few of the cops were fired, one even self terminated, or did he? This scandal went far and high. No loose ends.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/us/oakland-sex-scandal-officers-fired/


http://sfist.com/2016/07/26/oakland_officers_suicide_and_his_wi.php


Loose ends, wrapped up. The higher level cops can keep jobs. For now...

I couldn't find that part. Without it the story sounds less like an Aesop Fable and more like a stereotypical Hollywood movie with a happy ending. Good for her I guess. Couldn't find in the article whether these cops were fired, but this million should be paid by them, not the city.

People might remember a news item last year about an underage prostitute who had sex with dozens of police officers in Oakland. The girl was not paid for her encounters with police, instead they gave her secret information about upcoming "prostitution stings" so she would not get caught.

Today her lawyer managed to get the city to pay for the romantic interludes of its officers.

Oakland will pay $989,000, of which $973,000 will go to her lawyer, and she will receive $16,000, which works out to $20 per blowjob and $40 per normal sex act.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-oakland-police-sex-scandal-paid-1-million-article-1.3210280

Should she have gotten more?