Dongguan Police Responds to Public Outcry about Prostitute Humiliation

Dongguan Police Responds to Public Outcry about Prostitute Humiliation
Jul 23, 2010 Translated by eChinacities.com

Police from Dongguan in Qingxi County publicized photos of prostitutes they recently arrested during one of their crackdowns on sleazy clubs in the city, stirring up quite a bit of unrest online, especially in forum discussions and in microblog updates. Just recently, a popular thread entitled “Shocking Tactics by Police in the Crackdown on Prostitution: Public Humiliation is Uncalled For” attracted quite a following and heated debate on different Chinese forums. The thread included pictures of two alleged prostitutes dressed in very fashionable clothing but barefooted, handcuffed, and led by ropes tied around their waist. The pictures raised questions about police brutality and elicited much public outcry in the Chinese blogosphere.

Dongguan Police subsequently responded to heated debates about the pictures that were said to have depicted 'inhumane treatment' of alleged prostitutes on their official microblog – explaining that Qingxi County police had arrested two prostitutes and their pimps during a crackdown effort as part of the campaign for a safer city to host the Asian Games later on this year. Police explained that the pictures weren't about parading the prostitutes for public humiliation – it was standard protocol for investigation in having suspects brought back to the crime scenes for documentation purpose. They had taken videos and pictures and a reporter with a local news agency was also at the scene and had taken pictures as well. The said reporter had then selected three of the photos for a news article and had not reviewed the pictures with the police before publishing them – thus causing this misunderstanding with the general public. The police department stated that they warned the police precinct in Qingxi to learn from the mistakes and prevent from something like this ever happening again in the future.

Many netizens did not find the police explanation satisfactory and continued to press for officials to explain the reasoning behind why the pair of suspects had to be barefoot and led by ropes for 'documentation purpose'. Some netizens left comments explaining that while they had been satisfied with the police department in general and are appreciative of their hard work, it is imperative that the department do more to curb the few officers that are viewed as 'out of line' in enforcing the law – as these few bad seeds can easily spoil the whole barrel and thus put a dent on the image of the police department as a whole.


Source:
sohu.com

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onceaknight

Sometimes, well all too often, in fact China's can be so pathetic in it's approach, attitude and manner. How degrading, do the police and local government think this is the correct attitude and manner, I think not, this is 2000 years ago past history process.Market and slave trader behaviour. Education is required social awareness programmes, not humiliation.I've seen dogs treated better than this. How disgusting to take this approach. More like perverted police actions. Maybe this is what they should do to the many corrupt policemen and women, and the many government officials who kindly help themselve to funds and dishonest behaviour. Rule for one rule for all.

May 20, 2011 19:37 Report Abuse

Janus

You're sick. Judging by your earlier comments on how these poor girls 'should be treated' - I have no doubts you took that poor shoplifter back into the store for her 'just desserts'. It's NOT the prostitutes who should be punished in ANY way - it's the Johns. The girls are just providing a service that would otherwise be filled by goats & sheep. It's MEN who have NO morals.

Jan 04, 2012 22:34 Report Abuse

Janus

Maybe you were born in a manger 'John'. Maybe you should be crucified for your comments, too.

Jan 04, 2012 22:40 Report Abuse

Guest626460

@Janus. The only thing which has no morals is your comment here.

May 05, 2023 12:19 Report Abuse