Has anyone here ever been in a club during a raid? What happened? I'm guessing the cops can't really hassle you unless they actually catch you in the act of doing something illegal or can they? What did you do?
Has anyone here ever been in a club during a raid? What happened? I'm guessing the cops can't really hassle you unless they actually catch you in the act of doing something illegal or can they? What did you do?
Look "similiar threads". Sorry, not feeling really original I guess...
No, but a club I went to once in a gret while got busted for drugs a night I was not there. A dancer (wife of the chief of police in a neighboring town), a bouncer, and a barkeeper were arrested. Undercover cops had been in there many times trying to buy drugs and finally succeeded.
Chief of police lost his job, sad because he apparently didn't know anything about his wife's sideline.
And I don't go there any more.
Nope, never. PAY ATTENTION TO your city elections, and the club your in. If its nasty and known to give BIG extras than you know the risk your taking.

I'm not sure if a local club here in west Desmoines got raided (BeachGirls). but I went there a week or so again. I dropped a friend off to work there and the owner of the club had hired police to check everyone's purses and etc. to try to clean up the place. I applaude this and everything. but once a club has the reputation of illegal activities going on in the establishment I think its harder for the club or business to gain the reputation of being a descent establishment.
Yeah i've been in a couple of clubs down in Columbus, Ga that were raided more than a few times. Once i was in the club and the two undercovers were sitting right beside me at the stage acting crazy, drinking, squeezing ass and stuff and then all of a sudden the music went off and everything got quiet. I looked at them and gave the WTF is up look, i then looked back and saw the cops standing at the back of the club and the two undercovers standing beside me get up and go over to them. The club was supposed to be no nudity with pasties on the nipples so they started pointing out all the women they'd seen breaking that rule. In all that got like seven women, it fucked me up because these guys that were undercover were acting worse than any customer in there almost begging some of the women to show something and then they gonna be in the parking lot high fiving each other like they made a major drugbust or something. Another club the police pulled up in a van dressed in all all black like they were the swat team and ran thru the club with flashlights asking for licenses, looking for drugs, seeing if any women were naked.





I've seen cops come in to arrest a guy for non-club related charges because they got a tip he was there. Kind of creepy and not good for business..... but no raids yet and I don't expect one!




Mine used to get raided frequently. Then they started paying off the cops, I think.
It is basically a whore house, but the raids don't shut it down. Owners have more than enough to pay the fines, and so do the dirty girls. It really only hurts girls who aren't doing anything but dancing![]()
But I'm not gonna rant about the justice system in this thread. I'm getting angry about 16 things just saying that.
Yeah i know this club that pays off the cops but every once in awhile have to "sacrifice" a few dancers. The night of the "surprise" bust they will tell their moneymakers what the deal is and they will be on their best behavior so when the cops raid if they get somebody it'll be one of the dancers the owner doesn't mind losing for a minute





You've provided a very concise summary !It is basically a whore house, but the raids don't shut it down. Owners have more than enough to pay the fines, and so do the dirty girls. It really only hurts girls who aren't doing anything but dancing
Yes I've been involved in more than a few club busts ... both as a dancer and later as a feature. Invariably the clubowners are 'immune' to legal consequences because of the way state / local laws are written and the fact that the clubowners can claim 'gee officer I had no idea what was going on in the VIP room'. Unless the clubowner chooses to make an issue with local politicians / LE, or the club has allowed things to get totally obvious and out of hand in regard to drugs / prostitution, the club itself won't face any meaningful charges or fines.
Yes I've spent a few nights in a holding cell waiting for a bail hearing. Arguably, I have never actually done anything in a club that was illegal ... to the best of my ability to research local laws anyhow. But this doesn't really mean anything in real world terms since LE often chooses to bust every dancer in the club just to increase the 'publicity' factor (i.e. knowing that the charges are bogus). And yes it has cost me a whole bunch of money in legal fees over the years to 'prove my innocence'.
Your comment about club busts hurting 'clean' dancers more than 'dirty' dancers is also accurate, for the same reason of legal fees. In general, if a busted dancer can't afford to (or chooses not to) retain her own attorney, odds are that she is going to be offered a plea bargain arrangement cooked up by the DA and the club's attorney. This will generally get her bail and fine paid by the club ... but will also get her a black mark on her permanent record. On the other hand, 'dirty' dancers as well as feature dancers are in a better financial position to retain their own attorney ... who can usually get charges dropped for lack of hard evidence. The 'clean' dancers usually wind up accepting the plea bargain or being found guilty by local yokels ... because the stripper stereotype works against them big time in local courtrooms in any 'he said, she said' situation against the word of a local cop (who may very well be lying !).
As a result of this 'hard knocks' experience, I eventually developed a 'sixth sense' in regard to the 'bustability' of all new clubs I wound up in for the first time. On more than one occasion the 'sixth sense' told me to not even unzip my dance bag - just turn around and walk away. After all, the legal fees involved to 'prove your innocence' after a bogus bust can quickly wipe out an entire week's worth of net earnings potential ... and can be even more expensive if an appeal is necessary to prevent local yokels from finding you guilty just because they don't like having a strip club in their neighborhood / because they don't like the fact that their husband goes to strip clubs / because their local preacher is on a 'crusade' against strip clubs etc.
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