SOUTH Beach turned into "Miami Vice" when hookers and pimps preyed on drunken male partygoers spilling out of the high-end hotels that hosted some of the nation's hottest New Year's Eve bashes. Intrepid flesh-peddlers rented out a block of rooms in the shabby San Juan Hotel across from the Ritz-Carlton and posted girls on the sidewalk outside offering "special" New Year's Eve deals of $100 for 15 minutes of fuck action. Another pimp parked his Cadillac at a gas station so juiced-up johns could frolic with his hookers inside. The South Beach skank-a-thon went largely unchecked because many local cops were busy moonlighting as security at hotels like the Raleigh, Shore Club, and Shelbourne.