Police from the 76th Precinct arrested seven "horndogs" last Saturday night on the "slimy corner" of Butler and Nevins streets in Boerum Hill for soliciting sex from undercover cops posed as prostitutes. As the Brooklyn Paper points out, each of the johns were caught in the same way every time, as if taking their cue from Talking Heads: they'd roll up to the corner in their car and throw out a price, ensuring their arrest for solicitation, a misdemeanor. BP lists the details of each bust, including one man who "lightly injured" an officer, as well as the (seemingly) stingy prices each offered (which ranged from $10 for oral sex to $28 for intercourse). Police have nabbed 20 men as part of "Operation Losing Proposition" on that corner alone.
These johns should really do their research though; if they had, they'd know that the Butler/Nevins corner has been targeted by cops for months now. The "roach motel for would-be johns" has been yielding monthly prosecutions since at least this past January; five men, including one bearing flowers, were busted in April alone.
"Operation Losing Proposition" dates back even farther, to January 1991, which must make it the longest lasting undercover police operation in the city not to utilize old "Reliable."
