Letter: Police Wasting Time, Resources  Although I am not an
attorney, I feel that Rick Parrish’s arrest for soliciting a
prostitute is entrapment and a poor use of police resources in
fighting crime in general and sex crime, in particular. What we
seem to have here is prostitution created by the police
department looking to catch someone willing to pay for sex. How
do we know that Mr. Parrish would have seriously been looking
for a prostitute if the police department had not offered? It
seems to me that this is a lazy way for the police department to
act like they are doing something about sex crime.  I have seen
reports that in other cities, the serious sex crimes involve
johns trapping young girls and making them sex slaves. Is it
possible that this happens in Fort Smith? If so, our police
resources don’t appear to be well managed, in this regard. This
is not the first time an arrest like this has happened. A few
months ago, a similar case was reported in the paper.  I’m not a
friend of Mr. Parrish and was