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The Pornography Industry Today |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / PORNOGRAPHY: AGAINST LOVE AND DECENCY |
| Author: An Interview With Two Detectives |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 8,280 Words, 46,814 Characters |
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The following article is an interview with two members of the Los Angeles Police Department's Administrative Vice Division, Sgt. Bob Peters and Det. Bob Navarro, conducted by WORLD & I Currents in Modern Thought editor Robert Selle.
THE WORLD & I: What sort of day-to-day work do vice officers such as yourselves do?
Sgt. Bob Peters: Basically, our responsibility is gathering information on the pornography industry and putting together obscenity cases. We check the bookstores, arcades, and other pornography outlets on a regular basis, find out the type of material that's on the market, the type of product that's selling and not selling, magazines that are coming on the market.
We try to find material that we feel is prosecutable under our obscenity statutes. After that, w...
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...omen, then it's obscene. If we had that type of standard in the United States, in the state of California, we'd really be able to keep this kind of material from further corrupting our society. I think we have that responsibility.
It's a moral issue. All our laws are based on moral issues. People say we can't legislate morality. But we do it every time we make a law. They're all moral.
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