TheBaconator said:
But all you gotta do is ask them if they are a cop straight up and they must tell the truth.
I lot of people think that, but no, they don't. Think about it. Every undercover operation in the country would be ineffective due to that one little trick. Deception on the part of an undercover officer as it relates to illegal activity is very Constitutional.
It is actually for the crime of
soliciting that most arrests are made. That's basically everything that happens prior to fvcking. Most hookers get busted by standing on a corner asking guys if they want to fvck. Street corner hookers are an eyesore, and easy targets for cops. Society does not hate prostitution so much as we hate looking at it. That's why the yellow pages have hundreds of ads for escort services. They do better at getting away with it, because it is you soliciting them, and due to the agency being a third-party intermediary. The odds of you personally calling an escort service and have a undercover cop come to your hotel is virtually zero. No one patron of call girls is worth the required resources to catch you in a sting op. If they do sting ops, it will usually be at massage parlors or strip club back rooms, where they can rack up a bunch of busts at once.