Indianapolis (8383MF) is girding for a Super Bowl party that is challenging its small-town virtues. The strippers are already at work.
Rick’s Cabaret International Inc. (RICK) flew in more than 100 dancers to its Indianapolis club for “seven days of nonstop party action” from its Miami, New York, Minneapolis and Texas venues, Allan Priaulx, a spokesman, said in a telephone interview from New York.
“We wouldn’t bring them down there if they weren’t going to make money for us, and they wouldn’t go unless they were going to make money for themselves,” said Priaulx, whose firm’s shares rose 18 percent in the year ending Jan. 31, compared with 2 percent for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.
National Football League owners voted four years ago to hold the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis, the state capital and a center for amateur sports. The city has said the economic impact of the game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots and days of high-rolling parties may be $250 million. It prepared with measures that include as much as $4 million in public-safety spending, a human trafficking law and what boosters say is the nation’s longest temporary zipline.
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Police Target Pickpockets, Prostitutes Downtown
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POSTED: 6:40 pm EST February 2, 2012
UPDATED: 6:50 pm EST February 2, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — From pickpockets to prostitutes and unlicensed cab drivers, police have been busy cracking down before the Super Bowl.
Vice officers said they’ve started to notice an influx of prostitutes from across the United States, arresting women with addresses in Michigan, Oklahoma and New York, RTV6’s Jack Rinehart reported.
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In the heart of downtown, arrests have declined since the festivities began, officials said, but as the crowd grow this weekend, so will the police presence.
“I think we’re very well-prepared. We are increasing our manpower, person power if you will, now more than we have in the past,” said Indianapolis Public Safety Director Frank Straub. “There will be additional event response group teams downtown.”
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As the Super Bowl nears, security measures to keep Indianapolis and football fans safe are intensifying.
FOX News Radio’s Jeff Monosso reports from the Super Bowl in our ongoing series on national security:
As local and state law enforcement officials roam the crowds looking for pickpockets and prostitutes, national security officials are also keeping an eye on things from a network of cameras surrounding downtown Indianapolis, and from the sky.
(Haller) “Our #1 goal is to make this a secure event. There is not an individual or an asset that I have in this division that is not involved with the security of the Super Bowl.”
…The FBI’s Robert Haller. Officials, also setting up a no-fly zone around the stadium. They say only small purses or bags are allowed inside on game day, and they’re encouraging ticket holders to arrive early, allowing enough time to pass through security.
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Then comes media day on Tuesday, followed by incessant coverage of events that normally you wouldn’t care about, but are covered by reporters simply to make it seem to their bosses that they’re actually working on Super Bowl week —so that bosses don’t wise up and decide to not fly them in until Friday night.
The media will make stories out of anything, and that includes your town. If the weather is nice and the food is good, expect rave reviews. If the weather is crappy, expect to be heavily criticized.
And that’s where this slideshow with the obscenely long intro and jokes about strippers comes in. Even though there are 31 metropolitan areas home to NFL franchises (I’m counting Oakland/San Francisco as one since it is the “Bay Area”), only 13 of them have thus far been home to Super Bowls, with that number only climbing to 15 by 2015.
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The bill will broaden the law with cases that involve older victims. It will make recruiting, transporting or harboring anyone younger than 16 for prostitution a felony. Violation of the law is punishable by 20 to 50 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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According to an article published by USA Today, during the 2009 Super Bowl two Florida men allegedly used the website Craigslist to subject a 14-year old girl to prostitution during the event.
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Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution is an organization that is helping head up efforts to combat prostitution surrounding the big game.
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According to the Indianapolis Protection of Abused and Trafficked Humans, human trafficking is tied as the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry, and ages 12-14 are the average ages in which a victim of human trafficking enters into pornography or prostitution.
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Their mission is to keep a stadium filled with 68,000 fans safe from some weapon-wielding terrorist who wants to make a political statement during the most-watched televised event in the world. And also to deal with the more mundane criminal elements that come with an event of the Super Bowl size: Pickpockets, prostitutes and people who drink way too much.
“The goal is safe, secure and fun Super Bowl,” said U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
On Wednesday, Napolitano joined Indianapolis Public Safety Chief Frank Straub at a news conference to unveil some of the measures the Super Bowl host city is taking to keep people safe before and during game day on Sunday.
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Meanwhile, Indianapolis police have also beefed up their efforts to curb crime that Straub says “routinely goes up” during major sporting events. City police, for example, have increased their undercover work, both on the streets and on the Internet, posing as prostitutes to catch unsuspecting “clients.”
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… I was targeted by a group of guys, and one of them had just offered me a ride from school one day. I was excited, but he didn’t take me home,” she recalled. “He took me to his house, and he offered me a pop that was laced with something, and proceeded to rape me.”
His cousins took pictures as blackmail, and the rape continued for two years.
“They threatened to kill my family if I told anybody,” Flores said. “In my head, I was just trying to earn back those pictures so that nobody knew, and earn my life back.”
Flores got out when her family moved, and she now has dedicated her life to putting a stop to human trafficking. She worked with hundreds of volunteers from across the Midwest on Wednesday morning at Camp Camby. They were preparing for what she has called the SOAP, or Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution, Project.
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Napolitano: Heightened security in place for Super Bowl
Updated: 02/01/2012 03:37:49 PM EST
In this Jan. 28, 2012 photo, a security guard works at a concert in Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis. From pickpockets and prostitutes to dirty bombs and exploding manhole covers, authorities are bracing for whatever threat Super Bowl XLVI might bring. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) (Mark Humphrey)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Pack lightly, Super Bowl fans. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano joined NFL and other officials in warning that security for Sunday’s game at Lucas Oil Stadium would be significantly heightened – a common precaution for such sports events since the 2001 terrorist attacks – though Napolitano cautioned there have been no credible threats involving the Super Bowl as of Wednesday. That means metal detectors and pat-downs by security guards will be part of the routine before Sunday night’s kickoff between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, a game expected to draw about 67,000 people. Fans were told to leave camcorders, beach bal …
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Periodically, throughout the game necessary breaks will be taken so the players can rest and the networks can earn money by showing advertisements for 30 and 60 second time slots they have sold for as much as $4 million dollars a slot. The purchasers of those time slots will have those scant seconds to make a positive connection with an audience that is half in the tank and available to be entertained, but not overtly sold to. This is the story of why advertisers try to use sex to sell in their Super Bowl Ads.
According to the creator of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, we are obsessed with sex. It constantly occupies our minds both consciously and unconsciously. According to a study conducted by the Journal of Sex Research, men had sex thoughts an average of 19 times a day. Sex is the most searched term on the internet. It is therefore, not surprising that, in an effort to cut through the clutter advertisers use sex.
GoDaddy, the perennial pimp of Super Bowl commercials has hired Danica Patrick, Jillian Michaels and the Pussycat Dolls and H&M strangely is going with David Beckham.
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He explained his love of the movie “Hardball,’’ which inspired him to say, “We’re going to the ’ship’’ (also available on T-shirts made by Modell’s).
Gronk told us he had no rooting interest in the Patriots or Giants when he watched Super Bowl XLII with his brother and parents when he was a freshman at the University of Arizona. Steelers linebacker Brett Keisel, of “Fear the Beard’’ fame, got Gronk to deliver a plug for Head & Shoulders shampoo. A soldier with a camera got Gronk to look into his lens and thank our troops serving overseas (“God bless America and thank you guys for everything you guys do’’). Teammate Jerod Mayo interviewed Gronk for “Pariots All Access’’ and asked for Gronk’s reaction to Brandon Spikes’s travel day pink suit.
“The guy has class, he’s a pimp, and he knows how to roll,’’ answered Gronk.
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