Well, until the Palm Springs Police Department places female officers in out of way the places, has them expose their breasts and rub their twats at passing men, I’m going to have to assume some discriminatory intent on the part of the police.

This articleses a couple of items:

Even if the decoys were coy, another policeman, Sgt. Matt Beard, testified he simulated a sex act by himself behind a pool filter while providing undercover security for the decoys.

Beard said he wasn’t instructed to do that, but he aimed to mimic “what was going on around me” and “dispel any suspicion that I was an undercover officer.”

This adds to the claims of entrapment IMO.

Beard and other Palm Springs officers said Tuesday they’ve encountered both straight and gay couples having sex in cars in public but never made arrests.

Their own testimony gives grounds for finding that the police has engaged in selective enforcement. Rather stupid actually because I don’t have a problem if they arrested BOTH straights AND gays who are CAUGHT in the ACT of having sex in public.

I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that there have been NO, meaning Absolutely Zero, records submitted wherein citizens have actually made formal complaints. No records.

Do YOU want Police coming at you because of anonymous or unproven “complaints”? Certainly not.

If there had been valid complaints, then there should have been records of such provided to the court.

It’s bogus, and the Chief should have a taste of his own medicine.

Dominguez’s opinion of gay people (or at least those he trapped) was fairly clear.

Is it? Or is it only clear from his remarks that he finds gay sex to be distasteful, at least when done in public settings?

Can we assume that this didn’t sway his decision to undertake the exercise while overlooking activities by straights?

Is the Riverside PD receiving numerous complaints of straights engaging in public sex? I’m not aware of this happening in Riverside, besides the odd couple now and then.

Their opinion shouldn’t really have too much weight, what has teh DA said? Has the operation been put into context of specific tagetting?

I don’t know, but I am uneasy when the policeman advises the judge whether or not to proceed; if nothing else there is a vested interest in one’s actions being validated…

What exactly do you want from this, Tim? Was this a sting? Quite possibly. Are stings illegal? I truly do not know what’s on the books in Palm Springs.

The police are employed by a Town Manager who is gay. Who is himself hired by a council of five people, three of whom are gay. The slurs about Riverside County don’t apply here.

Should these elected officials and their managers practice discrimination against residents in the area who don’t like the public sex and constantly complain about it, simply because they’re gay and so are the likely participants in the illegal act? If it’s been attempted to stanch the behavior in the past with no luck, what’s the next step?

Surely nobody likes to be caught in a sting, but there is no there there. And Tim, your lack of objectivity is pretty clear here, and disappointing.