Secrets of the City

The PiPress story is so interesting because it’s surprisingly long and indepth. The tone is semi-salacious, while at the same time declaring this kind of research was necessary in this case. It’s as though the story wants this to be scandalous, but knows it isn’t really scandalous. Such as: “It was necessary, in some cases, to get several lap dances at the same club in the same night because the officers had to appear believable.”

The Blotter post was really depressing because it not only mentions the closing of the Deuce Deuce, but it also says BJ’s won’t have entertainment next year. What sad day for gentlemen’s establishments!

Putting a bullet through the deucedeuce isn’t just about protecting the neighborhood, guys; you have to think about those working class bartenders and servers. They are forced to inhale second-hand poledancing. Every. Single. Day. It’s our government’s responsibility to protect these poor people.

The Double Deuce would do better to make a few changes. Just saying that no one would go there without strippers doesn’t say to much about their actual business, being a bar.

This story is fucked up on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin — a convicted sex offender police officer investigating whether a liquor license should be approved — by getting thousands of dollars of lapdances in states where they have absolutely no jurisdiction or authority!?! Absolutely crazy.

(and am imaging things, or did we talk about the Double Deuce, like, two weeks ago?)

I’m glad they did this. No sense importing vice when crime is already out of control. But how on earth does a sex offender become a cop??????

Just as long as they didn’t buy any $500 enemas ….

But how on earth does a sex offender become a cop?

As I am in the law enforcement industry I can offer to you only Occam’s Razor: Contacts within the department.

Kevin from Minneapolis, it looks like he was already a cop. My understanding is that it’s difficult for people to become cops with certain convictions — which is why the vast majority of people seeking pardons in this state are those who want to pursue careers in law enforcement — but it looks like it’s incredibly difficult to fire cops once they’ve been hired. According to the article, “Then-police Chief John Laux fired Warnberg in 1993 after he was convicted of fourth-degree sexual assault for fondling a woman in his Wisconsin National Guard unit. Warnberg served a six-month jail term, during which he appealed his firing. The Civilian Service Commission reinstated him as a police officer, and a Hennepin County district judge upheld the commission’s decision, saying the incident was an isolated case.”

We did. I mentioned this in the Sue Jeffers post, which is why you can’t find it.

That is, we did discuss the 22nd Street Station’s impending paucity of coked up strippers.

Scooped the Blotter again.

Mike S, you’re right it is incredibly difficult to fire police officers. There’s a lot of bureacracy in the discipline policy. I know of at least 2 officers who have appealed their terminations within the last year and won. They got retro-pay, their jobs back and then some.

I can also confirm that there are many law enforcement students out there with major convictions on their records but are able to get them expunged etc. The “classic case” example (from my experiences) are young men with domestic assualt convictions. Somehow the boyfriend/husband is able to get the wife/girlfriend to recant and the rest is history.

Warnberg challenged his termination under the Veteran’s Preference Act, which means it was his veteran status that saved him from being fired. See State ex rel. Laux v. Gallagher, 527 N.W.2d 158 (Minn. App. 1995).

Rex, I’ll get right on the SAVE THE DOUBLE DEUCE tees.

Everyone I know calls it the Deuce Deuce. Not like I know that many people, but I’m surprised I’ve never heard Double Deuce before now.

Double Deuce tees would be awesome.

(This would’ve fit perfectly with the original idea of the t-shirt series, which was to do quick-turnaround tees based upon news events. At one point, Alexis and I were talking about “Save Saks” tees, which would have been hillarious to see at the Triple Rock.)

I really wish we would have. I envisioned skinny tees on gay guys for that one, though.

I’d totally wear a shirt that says SAVE THE DOUBLE DEUCE, every damn night of the week (which happens to be how often I’m in Northeast bars).

I think some clarification my be needed on the “convicted sex offender” part of the story, which might accidentally imply an act involving a child, when in fact it was fourth-degree sexual assault on an adult.

Obvs, that doesn’t change the general concern you might have about the issue. Just clarifying if anyone else was confused.

Miss Cody goes with Deuce Deuce here. While on a Vegas golf trip with Glenn (memoir coming soon from Knopf Publishing) I heard Double Deuce but more often, “the two two”.

If anyone’s headed there for lunch today, please ask which they prefer.

What part made the implication there was a child involved — I never got that impression, as the story says “he was convicted of fourth-degree sexual assault for fondling a woman in his Wisconsin National Guard unit” but I’m now interested in where that perception came from . . .

I like “Double Deuce” because it sounds kind of like a bra size. But yeah, “Double Deuce”, “Deuce Deuce”, “Two Two”, “Twenty-second”… I hear them all, all the time. Everyone knows what you’re talking about, no matter which name you use.

The only other bars in my ‘hood I can think of that have nicknames are The 331/3-3-no-fun (because Jon took out all the games) and Stasiu’s/The Stash (there are also roughly 5 variations on the pronunciation of this bar’s name).

Bar/restraunt nicknames would be a good thread.

Here’s a double deuce for ya:

http://board.spawn.com/forums/member.php?u=24264

BJ’s is gonna discontinue topless dancing? What about bottomless dancing?

This is why I stay home and dance naked.

That and a lack of friends and finances.

I’d pay cash money for one of those shirts. Sign me up.

Something like this?

I mean, something like this:

hell yeah

That is pretty sweet. I’d buy one.

If it takes $10,000 to buy sex and drugs that’s a good indication that it’s not common. Heck, if the cops can’t find it on the street for $100 they’re just turning a blind eye.

Yeah, I haven’t gone all Mencken on it or anythign, but I think it’s gotta be deucedeuce. That just sounds better. So…double deuce is deeshed, you douchebags.

I’m with Steve. Deuce Deuce looks and sounds best.

I just dug out an old cap from there and can safely say that there is absolutely no logo standard. Have at it designers.
(nice work jmullan but i’d back off the cbgb font.)

And I assume douchebags includes tools for the unhip crowd?

Wait a second… did stevemarsh just call me a douchebag?

It’s on!

Colorado newspaper picks up the story.

“Luke” asked for this in another thread.
shirt

kristoff: well, uh, the idea was that it was a half-assed parody. I’d be willing to work on a new design if it weren’t 99% joking.

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