Posted on 11/20/2006 3:00:13 PM PST by SmithL
A police officer who claimed he was conducting his own prostitution sting and strip search ended up being the one arrested. Authorities arrested James Michael Jackson, a police officer with the state Department of Human Services, and charged him with sexual assault and sexual misconduct for the so-called sting.
According to authorities, Jackson, 34, of Toms River, arranged through a service for a woman to meet him Wednesday at a local hotel in Manchester.
When she arrived, Jackson, carrying a badge and gun, told her she was under arrest. He made her take off her clothes and consent to a body cavity search before letting her go, said Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Anton.
The prosecutor said Jackson overstepped his bounds as a law enforcement official when he placed the female prostitute under arrest and performed a strip search.
As a police officer, Jackson had authority to make arrests, but not through an undercover operation of his own, Anton said.
"And a male to strip-search a female is just not done," he added.
The woman reported the incident to authorities the next day, after she talked to law enforcement officers she knew who said Jackson's behavior was illegal.
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"Up against the car and spread 'em!"
If he'd paid, she apparently would have been fine with it.
I am an officer of the law.
This guy should be fired. Not just for his actions in the abstract, but because anybody who thinks they could actually get away with something like this is quite obviously insanely stupid.
That would have been illegal.
FIRED? Indeed, if they don't prosecute, lock his ass up, strip him of and and all pension and benefits and require him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, then whatever huge settlements this city pays for police misconduct from now to eternity are noting more than their just desserts.
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