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A Different Sort of Red Light Camera, and A Surprise for Bal’mer

Police are using surveillance cameras and CCTV footage to catch men who visit prostitutes and pay – or seek to pay for – sex.

Within weeks of such a visit a letter is sent to the “torsk” – Swedish slang for a male sex customer. If he does not admit to the crime he is taken to court.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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Rage Judicata says:

7 January 2009 at 1:51 pm

Some of my favorite CCTV stories:

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2703246

My personal favorite (wish it was Wasilla…):

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1983893

I couldn’t find the ones where Dallas is turning half of their cameras off because they’re no longer generating enough revenue to run the cameras, or the one where crime continues to fall i the UK despite the fact that they can hire only enough people to staff about half of their cameras…

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