Was Craig's arresting police officer homophobic?

[ecstatic]

At first I was so shocked that a police officer would stand up in such a way to a sitting white male senator. He didn't let Craig slide at all. But then I got to wondering: Was the police officer merely doing his job or was he firm with Craig due to homophobia?

[Ediacara]

1. I don't think there's enough data to tell either way

[ecstatic]

10. his tone of voice on the tapes? nt

[Ediacara]

22. I haven't heard them yet

[Bluebear]

2. This was NOT a "gay" crime, it was a toilet crime.

Who is accusing the cop of homophobia?

[evlbstrd]

3. Other

I'm over the Craig "affair".

[H2O Man]

4. No.

He was very respectful of the person he had arrested.

[goodhue]

5. not likely to be homophobic

IMHO

[TahitiNut]

6. Is NBC's "To Cach a Predator" heterophobic?

I really don't think it's relevant.

YMMV, of course. :shrug:

[AlCzervik]

14. very good.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

18. They starting a

new series "To Catch a Senator".

[Vilis Veritas]

24. Wouldn't that be Pedo-phobic?

Since that series specifically deals with trapping online predators that prey on young kids regardless of gender, I would submit that would be a better rhetorical question to ask.

FWIW...I agree that it is probably not relevant.

[TahitiNut]

28. Nope.

While this has been pointed out often on DU (usually with some disagreement), a pedophilia a preferential or exclusive sexual attraction by adults to prepubescent youths. 'To Catch A Predator" is about (purported) teen-agers.

:shrug:

[Vilis Veritas]

29. I was wrong and so are you. There is need for another term.

I think the term that you and the one that I used painted a very narrow brush to a very broad program. After looking at the site for that show...not only do I feel sick...

1. Decoys have claimed to be as young as 12.
2. Decoys have been boys.

Peace

[kirby]

7. Who the heck knows?

Obviously the officer was assigned to work the MENS room after a the police dept received complaints. So obviously the only people he would come into contact with during his 'stakeout' would be other men. Not having met the officer, how could anyone possibly know the answer to this?

[eleny]

8. The officer sounded serious, that's all

[unsavedtrash]

9. delete

[JuniperLea]

11. Does it really matter?

If he did his job, what's the issue?

I don't see this as a gay issue. I see it as a nasty old man who happens to be a Senator getting his jollies in a bathroom issue.

[AndyA]

12. I heard the reason this undercover detail was in place was not because of gay rest room sex.

It was because luggage stolen in airports is often taken to the rest room to be quickly gone through and discarded after valuables are removed. When the undercover cops started staking out the rest rooms to catch thieves, they discovered other things were going on there as well...

[goodhue]

15. well then you heard wrong

this was a sting operation due to complaints about gay cruising in this particular restroom

[napi21]

17. Yep, I heard the same thing. If you think about it, that would be the perfect

close cover place to take stolen luggage and most likely not be questioned when going through it. I also heard they were responding to public complaints about sex activity.

[napi21]

13. He was just doing the job he was assigned, and believe me, THAT'S

NOT a duty any cops wants!

[11 Bravo]

Nope, just a cope working Vice.

And trust me, they are some of the most jaded mother-fuckers on the planet. That cop could give a flying fuck about Craig's political affiliation, at this point, he just wishes the man had trolled a restroom in someone else's precinct.

[mondo joe]

16. Don't know, and doesn't matter provided he was doing his job appropriately. NT

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. if he was uncover to to catch sexual predators, unlikely

[acmavm]

20. Or to interpret this question another way, is it somebody else's fault that

they guy got caught doing something he damn well shouldn't be doing and that he also spends his life 'preaching' against?

[TechBear_Seattle]

21. The cop was enforcing the law

We don't have enough reliable information to say whether or not the officer is or might be homophobic; the two issues are entirely unrelated.

[ecstatic]

23. I think the biases of a cop are always relevant nt

[H2O Man]

25. If there was any

evidence of the cop being biased, it would be relevant. However, there is none. The Senator, who made the guilty plea, has since begun a tortured attempt to deny the reality of what happened. When he falsely accused the police officer of mistreating him, the police department responded by providing this recording.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. I Would Think If You Were Homophobic That's The Last Job You Want

eom

[opihimoimoi]

27. The Dept should promote him with a hefty bonus/raise...he is a HERO