The city of miami used bill boards a few years back
[QUOTE=Gringo2123; 1200820]Anyone dumb enough to offer $ for sex thru a car window might have theirs names published.
[url]http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/24/2232214/officials-consider-publishing.html[/url]
[/QUOTE]The one I remember was were the new braman gas station is on ne 2ave and 20 it use to be a bill board there and it had the name and address of all the people arrested for prostitution
More retards arrested in a sting.
[url]http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/pb-palm-prostitution-sting-20110703[/url].0, 7606910, full. Story
Filter results for prostitution only
Cool. But I can't seem to find the section for prostitution. Under what official term am I looking at in the filter section?
[QUOTE=Joe Black; 1221585]Sun-retinel is posting pics of arrested for Prost.
Crazy world.
[url]http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/mugshots/index.php[/url][/QUOTE]
With economy down, more prostitution stings
I'm posting both the link to this Sun Sentinel article and the text because the links expire very quickly. Mongers out here beware!
Sun-sentinel. Com / news / palm-beach / pb-palm-prostitution-sting-20110703, 0.6290476. Story.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Com.
With economy down, more prostitution stings.
By Andrew Abramson, The Palm Beach Post.
1:58 PM EDT, July 3, 2011.
LAKE WORTH.
Michael, a 33-year-old, unemployed, single father, was one of the first to take the bait at the prostitution sting in Lake Worth last month.
He was walking along Dixie Highway in broad daylight when he offered money to a prostitute who turned out to be a decoyed sheriff's deputy.
That June day he was one of 21 johns arrested as part of ongoing efforts by Lake Worth, West Palm Beach and other Palm Beach County cities to counter a vice that seems to crop up more when the economy is down.
With unemployment high, pill mills booming and foreclosures frequent, neighborhood leaders are pleading with government officials to clean the streets of the sex trade. And they're pointing to the men who solicit.
The West Palm Beach City Commission is considering bringing back a practice from two decades ago of publicizing the names of johns in newspaper ads, and now on the city website. The leader of a prostitution rehabilitation course for johns, meanwhile, has been urging officials to let first-time offenders remain anonymous, citing a miniscule rearrest rate after rehab.
To Michael it was no big thing.
He said his abusive wife left the family years ago, and that he hadn't had a girlfriend in four years. But at the time of his arrest, he didn't have a dollar in his pocket and he said he wasn't looking for a hooker. He made an impulse decision, he said.
"It's really not one of the worst crimes out there," he said shortly after his arrest."They should be focused on kids being molested, murders and drugs being brought into this country."
But many first-time johns come away with such attitudes tempered after attending a court-ordered Prostitution Impact Prevention Education course.
Some who attended a recent session said they hadn't given much thought to the prospect of catching gonorrhea, scabies or AIDS. Least of all, said a john named Jorge, who was arrested in a West Palm Beach sting last year, he never thought about the women, where they came from or why they were selling themselves off Broadway.
Gail Levine. 69, and her husband, Alan. 72, began the educational course in 2000 after they saw the detrimental effect prostitution had on their West Palm Beach neighborhood. County judges agreed to support the course, which is run on a volunteer basis and is no cost to taxpayers.
Levine says prostitutes are drug-driven and almost always re-offend within hours. The drugs of choice these days are prescription drugs like OxyContin, widely available in the county's pill mills. Sheriff's booking agent Dawn Fish said a prostitute was recently arrested with a condom in one pocket and AIDS medication in the other.
By contrast, of the 3, 140 johns who have attended the PIPE class since 2000, Levine knows of only 12 second offenses.
Levine brings in former prostitutes to give the johns an understanding of who they're trying to have sex with.
Mary Miller, for one, began as a teenage stripper in Miami in 1985 and eventually slept with customers for money. The cash fueled her crack addiction and she sold herself for 13 years.
"When I was done, you had to go because I didn't want to look at you," Miller told the johns."I'd literally puke because I've had sex with somebody I couldn't stand."
Miller pleads with the men, telling them,"this is just hurting people, hurting girls –– the drugs, the beatings, the children that are abandoned."
The program also uses scare tactics, with Detective Felix Leon of the West Palm Beach Police Department warning johns they're getting involved with the wrong people.
"She gets out of your car, you're satisfied, you're done," Leon said."The next thing you know, about an hour later that prostitute is dead because someone kills her. Then a detective starts following up and finds you."
The sheriff's office in Lake Worth and West Palm Beach police run frequent stings.
In Lake Worth, the stings usually take place on Fridays, pay day. First, they pick up the real prostitutes, making sure there's no competition in the streets. Then the johns arrive in droves.
Sgt. Oscar Cardenas has noticed an increase in prostitution from 6 to 9 am With customers increasingly aware of stings, they look for sex when police activity is minimal.
Cardenas sympathizes with the johns he arrests."Sometimes I feel bad," he said."They're begging, saying 'please don't tell my wife. ' "
But the female officers who pose as prostitutes are far less sympathetic.
"Some have wives in the house, some are arrested with their babies in the back seat while their wife is working," said one of the decoys."I don't feel bad."
After visiting the most recent PIPE class, West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio said she no longer supports naming first-time offenders on the city website or in newspaper ads, .
Michael Cleveland, a community activist in the struggling neighborhood of Pleasant City in West Palm Beach, said prostitutes regularly line Spruce Avenue between 13th and 25th Streets late at night and early in the morning. He wants johns to be named publicly on their first offense.
"I'd like to try to get the prostitutes out, but I can't," Cleveland said."If a john knows his name is going public on the first offense, no other john is going to do it."
Bob Beaulieu, president of the Northwood Hills neighborhood in West Palm Beach, also believes naming johns on a first offense would be a deterrent.
In 2010 the West Palm Beach Police Department made 135 prostitution-related arrests, up from 118 in 2009 but down from 377 in 2000. Countywide, there were 388 prostitution arrests in 2000, the fifth-highest number of the last 11 years, but below the high of 637 arrests in 2001.
Beaulieu doesn't believe prostitution has been reduced drastically. He said prostitution has moved from the city's main streets deeper into the neighborhoods where it's less visible to police, impacting quality of life and property values.
"We have prostitutes walking down our streets that we never had before, washing their hair in the irrigation system," Beaulieu said."You drive around the north end of city, and you have foreclosed homes, trash in the street, and it makes it look like it's OK for this behavior to go on. Putting johns' names in the newspaper may be embarrassing for their families, but it may be saving somebody's life."
Lake Worth just trailed West Palm Beach in 2010, with 134 prostitution arrests. The sheriff's office made 71 arrests in unincorporated Palm Beach County and Riviera Beach made 34 arrests. Levine said Riviera has one of the worst prostitution problems but that its police department doesn't have the resources to run stings.
In last month's Lake Worth sting. 22 people were arrested, ranging in age from 21 to 69. The sting also netted its first "jane," a woman who was soliciting sex to share with her boyfriend.
Not all of the johns are naive. Courtney, a maintenance worker who was arrested in last month's Lake Worth sting, called the stings "a good thing."
"With AIDS and all that stuff, they need to stop it," said Courtney, who pleaded not to be arrested because he'd have to call his wife."I work around the area and I know what's going on. I was just running my mouth when (I solicited sex). Would I have actually done it? I won't say yes and I won't say no. I don't know."
Levine said she actually favors legalized, regulated prostitution. But short of an unlikely change in the law, she believes her course is working, even if the world's oldest profession never dies.
"Even though the class is extremely successful and those that were arrested are now gone from the program and don't get rearrested, there's always a new crop," Levine said."They need to be educated and exposed to what could happen to them if they go out soliciting."
With economy down, more prostitution stings
[QUOTE=Mundo 007; 1229374]I'm posting both the link to this Sun Sentinel article and the text because the links expire very quickly. Mongers out here beware![/QUOTE]The answer to the dilemma of family oriented neighborhoods being infiltrated by hoes is simple.
Do as most of the rest of the civilized world has done, create a red light district, on the "other side of the tracks" where prostitutes can safely ply their trade and have the police monitor violence there and treat the women there with dignity.
But that won't likely happen here, because of the moral and money / tax issue.
Politicians will want to take in revenue any way they can, so, like in LasVegas, they will want pricy brothels where you kick out 200 bucks for a covered BJ from a 45 year old washed up stripper with rules on what you can't do between consenting adults.
Instead of a BBBJ from a 24 year old hottie who you can take pics, video and splooge for a fraction of the price.
Nope, I think mongers here are trapped in a cycle of playing cat and mouse with LEO and that's just how it's going to be.
So monger like your on a mission because the cops are not going away and neither is money or the needy women who will bend the rules and use their biological advantage to earn themselves some cash.
That's life in America folks!