Maryland’s Prince George’s Police Department announced it would live Tweet prostitution stings. With the hashtag #PGPDVice reserved, the PGPD said the public would be invited to come “along for the takedowns.”
The public announcement worked. Yesterday, after conducting a day-long sting, the police didn’t have to Tweet any arrests because there weren’t any. Sgt. Dave Coleman of the PGPD Vice Intelligence Unit said: “I’ve participated in hundreds of stings, and I’ve never seen what happened today. By advertising this days ago, we wanted to put johns on notice to not come to Prince George’s County. That message was heard loud and clear. We just put a dent in the human trafficking business without making one arrest.”
