The Sad “Operation March Sadness”
It’s only half-way through the month of March, but Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, who is now infamous for his name and shame press conferences touting the “success” of sex stings, has already netted more than 100 people in his latest operation which he named “Operation March Sadness”.
The operation was promoted to the media as a “six-day human trafficking sting” but it’s unclear from the press conference whether any human trafficking victims were rescued as a result. By the numbers, there were a couple dozen people arrested for “Offering to Commit Prostitution”, Roughly 80 people arrested for “Seeking a Prostitute”, 4 that appear on the poster as “child sex predators” and one woman under the heading of “Charged with Human Trafficking”
Let’s start with an analysis of whether this can really be considered a successful “human trafficking operation”. When less than 1% of the targets are actually arrested for human trafficking and more than 96% arrested for prostitution-related offenses, it’s not really a successful human trafficking sting, is it?
Next, the couple dozen people charged with “offering to commit prostitution”… aren’t they technically the victims here? Why were they arrested and why are they on the poster? As far as the majority of the busts… the 80 people arrested for “seeking a prostitute” are technically committing a misdemeanor. Again… not what you consider when thinking of a human trafficker and actually not a human trafficker at all.
I’m going to divert from my thoughts on the sting operation for a minute to make a point about “seeking a prostitute”. Remember three years ago the Florida legislature enacted Florida Statute 943.0433, the “Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database”? Well if a 6-day operation netted 80 people, I was curious to see how many thousands of people were added to the public database in three years, so I checked. 28. Yes twenty-eight. Not 28,000. Just 28. Odd.
Anyhow, so getting back to the Polk County sting. The four men listed as “child sex predators” are not listed on the FDLE registry as sexual predators or sexual offenders. In order to be classified as a “predator”, the person must meet specific criteria set forth in Florida Statute 775.21. Not sure why the Sheriff promoted them on his poster as such.
As far as the one “human trafficker”, according to one news report, “[a]ccording to the sheriff’s office, 32-year-old XXXXXX XXXXXX was arrested for trafficking another woman. Deputies say they learned Nash repeatedly threatened violence against the woman, who is an adult if she didn’t prostitute herself.” If true, horrible, not exactly the “human trafficking” one envisions, but still horrible. But what if the trafficking victim told police that just to avoid getting arrested? “Officer, she made me do it” By no means saying that’s what happened, but definitely suggesting the truth come out in court before we go out there with press conferences and scary headlines.
I would really like to see the stats on non-sex crime in that county. Seems to me that Sheriff Elmer Fudd dedicates so many resources to harassing and creating more registrants that most other crime is virtually ignored.
Seems to me like this sheriff is very obsessed with the idea of pedophilia. That’s why he spends so much time on helping create fake fake child predator cases and helping cover up the real truth about how they target men on adult hook up platforms to create these fake cases.
There is nothing shocking about any of the conversations from these cases, once people know and understand that these are very typical conversations people use these adult content platforms for. There is no reason why anybody would expect to find a minor in these places, much less a minor who is seeking random adult male strangers to engage in sexual conversations, invite to meet for a hookup, etc.
To claim to be a minor on an adult hookup platform, while seeking men to engage in sexual conversations, is the fantasy of some adults (pretending to be a young teen throwing themselves at men for sex). It’s not the behavior of real minors to do this, and then tell those random adult strangers that they are a minor. 🙄 Yeah, right! 😂Why is that so hard for so many people to believe or understand? Those supporting these sting operations are obviously the ones in strong denial about this.
A group of us should attend one of his live broadcast filmed meetings and ask him questions that I’m sure he would not want to answer.
Like: How much money does your department get from the federal government to conduct these stings?
**Do you believe the Florida sex offender registry should be reformed or not?
** does everyone in your family agree with your approach to law enforcement?
** how much money do you guys spend annually to go out of your way to try to find sex offender?
** do you believe believes that sex offender should be on the list for life?
I don’t think there’s anything stopping us from going and sitting in on one of his meetings and embarrassing him in front of everyone filming .
Would be great !!!
I wish I was in Florida to do this. I would love to ask him some questions.
I want to know if he thinks it’s ok to suggest to men that they should have sex with a minor instead of an adult and to continue pushing that on men.
I want to know if he thinks it should be illegal for anybody to go around (online) suggesting to men that they should have sex with a minor instead of with an adult. Should it be a higher charge if these individuals continue to push the idea of sex with a minor on the men?
I think it needs to be made illegal for anybody to suggest sex with a minor to men on adult hookup platforms who are clearly looking for consenting adults, in appropriate places for this, clearly not looking for minors. Nobody goes to these places to find minors. It should be illegal for anybody to force thoughts about sex with minors on others, for no real reason other than it feeds their own addiction to this, and they use it to make themselves look like the heroes they are not. They are promoting and encouraging the sexual abuse of children to feed their own interests. That’s the truth about this that many people are not aware of.
In 2015 Florida received $1,177,927 for these fake child predator cases. In 2016 it was $1.205,851. In 2017 it was $1,172,486. In 2018 they got $2,275,233. And in 2019 they got $1,555,249.
This all came from the ICAC federal grant program. Who knows how much more they got on top of that from private donors who have been fooled into believing these sting operations are helping keep their children safe online from predators, not realizing that if anything, these sting operations are more than likely INCREASING the real risk of children online because they are being conducted in all the wrong places where no one would ever expect to find minors, instead of conducting them on the regular social media platforms that real minors use, which is exactly where real minors are targeted and found for this kind of exploitation. Does anybody really believe that those who target minors online for this really don’t know that these bogus sting operations are helping keep them protected by keeping the focus on all the wrong individuals? There is absolutely no logical reason for why anybody should think that predators are targeting minors on adult hookup platforms. A real minor is not likely to identify themselves as a minor in one of those places. That is a very ridiculous and pathetic claim these fake heroes have made to justify their no sense actions in looking for individuals who are supposedly seeking minors to prey on (on adult content platforms).
As for the 4 men who had their name and picture plastered so everyone could call them child sex predators, I would make sure I have a copy of the news…then sue them and Sheriff Judd’s butt off for defamation, slander, and whatever else is pertinent.
TO: mbgodofwar
Something else I thought about this morning. As a former law enforcement officer, I am pretty sure, even once we get free of the registry, we will still have a felony. (most of us anyway)
As far as I know, there are still traps for us even if we get successfully removed. For example, in many place, felons of any kind are not allowed on school or college campuses. And license plate readers will still show us as having a criminal past so could still lead to harassment.
Having said that, I can deal with law enforcement on a case by case basis. However, having to deal with hateful neighbors who see us on the registry is living Hell on Earth. So just having that removed out of the picture would free a lot of our emotional stress.
It makes you wonder what dark demons Sheriff Grady Judd struggles with that fuels his furious need to obsessivley and publicly codemn others.
I also blame the press for giving this back woods, low class, crap for brains redneck the attention he so desparelty craves.
An important phenomonon that the gay rights movement taught us: many of those lawmakers who were shouting the loudest and voted every time to deny gay people equal rights under the law? Turns out they were closet self-loathing homosexuals themselves.
Please someone hire a private detective and find out what Sheriff DeGrady Fudd is doing when nobody is looking.
“rpsabq”: I completely agree with you. He certainly strikes me as someone who has a lot to hide. I’ve also heard that there are inhumane practices that go on in his jail, under his watch. He’s certainly not doing what he is doing to protect or help anybody. It’s pretty clear this is mostly about himself.
Florida should look into who is funding these sting operations. There is an organization (Demand Abolition) that funds some prosecutors’ offices to prosecute prostitution crimes, and as part of their funding, they demand convictions. I bet this sting operation itself (in Florida) can be traced back to MONEY. It’s always all about MONEY. And of course, many of these officers also like to use this cowardly work as an excuse to play out their own fantasies online (in these stings) and get paid for it too. We know there have been many stories about police sexually abusing prostitutes (and even other female police officers) during these so called “heroic” stings where they are supposedly protecting trafficked victims. There’s currently a lawsuit going on in Houston, TX for this. Turns out the “heroes” were the dangerous sexual predators themselves. What a shocker, huh? Like nobody would have expected that.