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Originally from azcentral.com

Mesa police and city officials announced a crackdown this week on scores of suspected illicit massage parlors that have sprung up in the city, but two detectives have already been on the case for nearly a year.

The number of massage parlors in Mesa has increased more than 60 percent over the past three years, from 73 to 119 with nine licenses pending. That number includes businesses that offer standard, therapeutic massages, and an unknown number that police believe offer back-room sexual services behind blacked-out front windows at all hours of the day and night.

Because it is difficult to prove prostitution without putting officers in compromising situations, detectives John Fitzgerald and David Heckel are forced to rely on city code citations as their main method of enforcement.

The article continues to tell the story of the detectives staking out and cracking down on these horrible parlors, who do no harm to anyone and actually provide a service to the community. And what can they do to these “criminals”? Nothing much, they can give them a ticket for not having a valid license to massage people. I think this is rediculous that the state pays these and other detectives to investigate a non-violent crime, and then do nothing about it other than hand out a few tickets to people that are not hurting anyone, in fact they are giving massages and they feel good. Maybe if these 2 cops tried to prevent some kids from using meth, or prevent a burglary, or something that helped the public Phoenix could climb out of being one of the most crime ridden cities in the U.S. Just a suggestion for my tax dollars.