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In some states the cops are legally allowed to rape people. C.f.: http://time.com/38444/hawaii-police-prostitutes-sex/ http://time.com/38444/hawaii-police-pros

• qz_ 10y ago
  > hawaii police prostitutes sex Now that's a headline I can get behind
• mnx 10y ago
  My reading is that they are legally allowed to have sex, not rape. Whether that has led to abuses is a serious issue, but saying "legally allowed to rape" is misleading.
  • Alex3917 10y ago
    They're allowed to have sex with sex trafficking victims who have been kidnapped and are being held hostage. I don't see how calling that legal rape is misleading.
    • mnx 10y ago
      The article doesn't mention that, but you are right.
• nkozyra 10y ago
  Perhaps a distinction without a difference, but they weren't 'legally' allowed to do this (iow it was still a crime), they were just immune from prosecution.
  • joering2 10y ago
    ... and at the end of the day -- what's the difference?? edit: second thought: I don't think it matters if something is done illegally, unless there is some penalty attached to it, no?
    • nkozyra 10y ago
      I said the difference may be academic, the note pedantic note is that rape was and is still illegal. You can be found guilty of crime and not punished via a number of mechanisms ... that doesn't negate the existence of the crime.
      • joering2 10y ago
        That just proves my point since most people commiting crime and getting away with it via "number of mechanisms", usually do the crime again, since there is no punishment, or so they think. The problem is that if government is not punished, then why on earth to think they will stop committing crime?