Carnal Cabaret: strippers who go the distance.

AuthorLott, Jeremy
PositionCitings - Brief Article

TO ENFORCE Spokane County; Washington's dreaded Cabaret Ordinance, local cops mounted a sting operation in August that led to the arrest of five strippers and the manager of the Deja Vu strip club on misdemeanor charges.

The girls were charged with violating the ordinance's four-foot "buffer zone"--the distance the law requires between strippers and patrons-by performing private lap dances on the undercover cops and others in exchange for cash. In an odd twist to the story; the cops left the club after their lap dances, then returned to make the arrests wearing masks to avoid being recognized in future stings.

Outrage followed. In a satirical piece for the local Spokesman-Review, columnist Doug Clark defended the officers against vice charges. "Many of you don't understand the kind of pressure these men were up against," he chided readers. As for the controversial provision of the 1997 cabaret law, Clark said he thanks God "every day for the Four-Foot Buffer Zone."

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