US government-funded study involves paying Mexican prostitutes

From The Daily Caller
If you give U.S. tax dollars to a Mexican male prostitute, will he agree to stay disease-free? That’s what government-funded researchers at Brown University would like to know.
The study is called “Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks: A Pilot in Mexico,” and uses a grant from the National Institute of Health to pay male prostitutes in Mexico City. The prostitutes were placed in different groups and tested for sexually transmitted diseases. For every six months that they remain clean, they receive a payment that is larger or smaller depending upon their group.
Though the dollar amounts paid to each prostitute are small — they must remain poor enough to continue in prostitution, of course — the study has already cost nearly $400,000.
Researchers hope the experiment will show that financial incentives can be used to deter the spread of HIV/AIDS.
But Drew Johnson of the Center for Individual Freedom wondered if bribing Mexican prostitutes was the best use of the taxpayer’s dime.
“At a time when the federal government is hiking taxes, raising its debt ceiling and drowning in ever-deepening debt, the last thing Washington needs to do is ship our money to Mexico City to give a cash reward to prostitutes for not catching Chlamydia or Gonorrhea,” he wrote. “But that’s not stopping them.”
The study’s leader is Omar Galarraga, an assistant professor of health policy at Brown. He did not respond to a request for comment.
Brown’s website praises the study’s “innovative structural approach.”
Brown is not the only university spending public money investigating the sexual diseases of Mexican prostitutes; the University of California at San Diego has received $3 million from the NIH in order to study infection rates.
The UC-San Diego study does not involve paying prostitutes, however.

Drug War Mishaps: Police smell meth, raid home, kill 80-year-old, find no meth

From Daily Caller:
The widow of an 80-year-old man who was shot dead by police during a drug raid on their home is suing for $50 million.On the night of June 27th, Los Angeles County deputies raided the home of Eugene Mallory and Tonya Pate. Authorities claim they had probable cause to search the premises because they could smell chemicals used to make methamphetamine while standing outside the house. Police suspected Mallory of being involved in an illegal meth ring.Mallory was asleep in bed when police entered his home. Pate said her husband has bad eyesight, and couldn’t tell that the men entering the house were police officers without his glasses.
What happened next is disputed by police and Pate. The deputies claim that Mallory pointed a gun at them, requiring them to take defensive measures. They shot him six times, and he died.
“Age does not preclude somebody from being aggressive toward deputies,” said Steve Whitmore, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, in a statement to local news. “The lesson here is, and obviously forgive me for stating the obvious, but don’t pull a gun on a deputy.”
But Pate maintained that her husband did no such thing.
“He would never point a gun at officers,” she said. “He was taken from me for no reason.”

Pate is suing the sheriff’s office for $50 million. The coroner’s office is also named in the suit; the office released Mallory’s body to an out-of-state relative, and Pate claimed he was cremated before her own investigators could perform an autopsy.
Police found no meth, nor evidence of a meth operation, inside the house. They did find marijuana — in Pate’s son’s room.
The sheriff’s department insists that the marijuana vindicates the raid.
“There was a drug operation that was certainly going on in this house,” said Whitmore.
All in all, it was a bad week of press for Los Angeles cops. One L.A. police lieutenant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute, and another officer has been temporarily relieved of duty after firing his gun in an effort toscare some kids who were bothering him.
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.

63 Cleveland Cops Suspended After Unarmed Couple Shot at 137 Times and Killed

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland officials will  suspend 63 police officers for their roles in a November high-speed chase that left two unarmed suspects dead after a maelstrom of police gunfire.

The officers are not among the 13 who on Nov. 29 collectively fired 137 rounds at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams near an East Cleveland middle school after the suspects led police on a full-tilt pursuit.

Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said 178 suspension days will be distributed among 63 officers who violated police protocol when they participated in the chase. The maximum suspension will be 10 days, McGrath said.

“Under a stressful, tactful situation, it’s more important to follow your rules and procedures than ever before, or you may have some type of chaos or problems,” McGrath said.

Two more officers will receive disciplinary letters. Nine others will receive non-disciplinary letters of instruction, McGrath said. 

An officer investigates the scene of a police-involved chase and shooting that left two suspects dead outside Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland Nov. 29.

The discipline will conclude the second of three phases in the city’s response to the chase, Mayor Frank Jackson said.

The first phase ended in June when officials fired one police supervisor, demoted two and disciplined nine others.

The third phase will deal with the 13 officers who opened fire on Russell and Williams.

“We have afforded everyone due process,” said Mayor Frank Jackson. “There have been extensive hearings conducted by both [McGrath] and his people and [Safety Director Martin Flask].” 

The deadly chase began in downtown and escalated when officers reported hearing a shot fired from Russell's car as it drove past the Justice Center.

Russell, with Williams in the passenger seat, tried to ditch police during a 23-minute chase through downtown, Bratenahl and East Cleveland.

Officers opened fired after Russell attempted to ram police with his vehicle, officials said.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said Russell was shot 23 times, and Williams 24. 

More than 100 officers on duty the night of the shooting had some involvement in the chase, officials said.

The 13 officers who shot to death Russell and Williams are still under investigation by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, McGrath said.

Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said the union will challenge the suspensions through arbitration.

“The suspensions are not consistent with what other officers received after similar chases,” Follmer said. “I think the department is responding to public pressure in this case.”

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