Orange County's war against sex
• Sex Crime , • Sex Workers
A longish article by William Dean Hinton in the Orlando Weekly about the nasty doing of central Florida's Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation.
The MBI has a well-earned reputation for ruthlessness when it comes to driving adult businesses out of Central Florida. Its agents and prosecutors have harassed and intimidated witnesses, lied about investigations, trumped up charges against old ladies and spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars -- as was the case in the infamous Rachel's investigation -- to coax a handful of people into committing petty crimes. No wonder the MBI is the most reviled law-enforcement agency in Central Florida. "What a waste of fucking money," says Doug Head, chair of the Orange County Democratic Party.