A troubling but well-written piece from the Dallas Observer: "Cruising With the Whore Cop"

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From the Dallas Observer, by Jesse Hyde from Sep. 2006:

The cop is finishing his second tater tot when a call comes over the radio. Officer Spearmint has just caught a girl and her pimp. They're across the street at the Pilot truck stop.

Terry Peters looks out into the darkness. "The animals are out," he says. Then he turns to me and grins. "You wanna go meet some hookers?"

Peters finishes his Coke, smashes the paper cup and shifts the squad car into reverse. They always give him the worst car in the lot, and tonight is no different. We already fixed a flat.

We cross Lancaster Road and drive down a dark lane where a long row of 18-wheelers are parked, engines rumbling loudly. Peters guides the cruiser over a curb into an empty field next to the truck stop off Interstate 20. We speed across the bumpy terrain, headlights bouncing up and down over the weeds, and pull up next to Spearmint, a broad-shouldered young cop who punctuates every other sentence with a stream of spit. The hooker and the pimp are standing in front of his car, caught in the glare of its headlights.

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More at the link. A troubling piece about the realities of prostitution, drug-dealing on the long-haul trucking circuit. Very much worth the read and, sadly, as relevant today as it was a few years ago. Very well-written.

PB

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1. tells me more about the "cop" than it does about the hookers nt