Police play up numbers in sex crimes
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Sex trade and crimes are illegal but the police have been playing up the numbers that are beyond general imagination.
In one case, the police in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, raided an office room and found six people engaging in sex trade.
The proprietor was asked how many clients he entertains each day and he said about 10 to 12.
The investigators proceeded to multiply the number by 13 months that the operation was believed to have been run and multiply that by 30 days and 12 clients a day for a result of 4,680.
Feeling that the number was too large, they cut it in half and placed in their report that more than 2,300 people had been illegally entertained at the premises. This turned out the number of 320 million won ($290,000) in illegal charges.
Such has been the way that the police have been working with numbers to their convenience, observers said.
They said there is no real basis for the way the numbers are calculated, numbers which eventually lead to the size of sentencing when the persons involved are indicted and end up in court.