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[Seadog]

http://www.wbns10tv.com/?sec=&story=...718565283.html

Wow - this in on 10tv - the Combined totals for 3 days was 69 people busted according to the video. They did it Monday, Tuesday and Wed. The video shows Rhoades park for sure. They also show briefly the Sunoco area on Sully.

If the West Side was dry before - it most certainly is now.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Officers with the Columbus police vice squad said they came close to breaking a record on Wednesday after making more than 30 arrests on the city's west side.

The arrests were made in an effort to stop men and women from soliciting sex on city streets, 10TV's Angela An reported.

During the three-day undercover operation, police said 69 men and women were arrested in the neighborhood near Broad Street and Central Avenue.

The operation began on Monday when, according to police, 17 men and women were arrested for soliciting and prostitution. On Tuesday, 19 more arrests were made, An reported.

On Wednesday, 33 people were taken into custody, police said. According to vice officers, the record for number of arrests in one day is 34.

During the operation, it wasn't just prostitutes being arrested, but also the men who come to find them. Most police refer to them as 'Johns,' An reported.

Two undercover police officers who pose as prostitutes spoke with 10TV and said the disease and health issues that surround prostitution make it a much bigger problem than most people give it credit for.

"They call it a victimless crime, but it's not," one of the officers said. "You're taking it home to your wife and kids and families and anyone else who knows you."

An undercover Columbus police sergeant said there isn't really a demographic of people that they see more often when dealing with prostitution. The people arrested in the past three days ranged from 23 to 76, and were arrested as early as 6 a.m., An reported.

"Some are unemployed, retired, old people and young people," the sergeant said. "So I don't think you can put a demographic on who we get as much as it really affects all of society."

Police acknowledge that the age-old problem of prostitution never seems to go away, but they said efforts must be made or it could overtake neighborhoods.

Stay with 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for additional information.

When, when, when, WHEN will these jackasses realise that all of the problems they claim for prostitution are a direct result of the activity being illegal, I challange both of these officers to go to Nevada and find a disease problem at the legal brothels, such as the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. As long as it's completely illegal, it will be driven underground with no oversight, and there will be problems.

[Hejova]

I may be wrong but that is the reason why, when abused women drops her charges against her abusive pimp/boyfriend (happens all the time); the State takes it up so the abusive pimp/boyfriend still remains in trouble, at least that I've heard. However considering what ILuvIt described above, the State perhaps isn't taking up such abuse cases very often.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/op...rs&oref=slogin

August 7, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
The Protection Battered Spouses Don’t Need

By RADHA IYENGAR
Cambridge, Mass.

TWO decades ago, in an effort to curb domestic violence, states began passing “mandatory arrest” laws. Police officers responding to a call for help would no longer need to determine whether one person was truly violent or out of control; every time someone reported abuse, the police would simply be required to make an arrest.

It seemed like a good tactic — at least to people who work with victims of domestic violence. (Police officers tended to be less enthusiastic, because they prefer to make arrests at their own discretion.) Arrests would immediately stop the violence and might discourage abusers from further acts of abuse.

But 20 years later, it seems the mandatory arrest laws are having an unintended, deadly side effect. The number of murders committed by intimate partners is now significantly higher in states with mandatory arrest laws than it is in other states.

Support for the laws began in 1984, after a federal district court in Connecticut ruled that the police had inadequately protected a woman whose husband had brutally assaulted her. State lawmakers decided they needed more control over how local police departments enforced restraining orders against abusers and intervened in incidents of violence. One way to get that control was to dictate how the police should respond in each case.

A small but influential study of police responses to domestic violence calls, conducted by criminologists in Minnesota in the early 1980s, found that arrests were the most effective strategy for reducing future violence. Now, 22 states and the District of Columbia have laws that mandate or at least strongly recommend that everyone accused of domestic abuse be arrested.

What the laws did not take into account was that eventually the victims of violence would come to realize that if they called the police, their abuser would certainly be arrested. And over the years, it turns out, that realization seems to have led victims to contact the police less. [...]

Full: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/opinion/07iyengar.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fContributors&oref=slogin>

[Trophytime]

Boy, it's sure been hot lately. I have a friend who happened to be traveling through the west side this afternoon. He said it was quite a site on Sully: A scantily dressed but clean looking white girl with her back to the storefront, talking to a black man while she watched the traffic. A good looking blonde on a bike with a purse, traveling the streets and the alleys a eyeing cars while cruisers and unmarked SUVs circled. Spotters sitting on steps talking into hidden mics. I guess there ARE some strange people out there!

My friend likes to cruise and said he's been meeting a lot of new friends in totally new places lately, just by keeping his eyes open. He likes to go far west and south, but also said he has met several friends north, but not real far north.

Interesting.

[FatBobby]

Went west on Main saw two just west of Alum creek, turned south on Parsons didn't see anything across Greenlawn to Mound, left on Souder nothing in the Sulli-Souder area. Across Town to Broad to Wilson. Saw 2 WSW around Odgen and Broad one the typical skank that hangs in the area,the other a new face. Around the block and she was gone . Mid 30'ish and blond hair, Rolled east on Broad through downtown up Cleveland to almost Morse. Saw one possible HSW and a couple run down BSW's ,around 22 ed and Cleveland.

Did see alot of LEO out one cruising down Parsons in a unmarked chevy impala silver in color with the window divider behind the front seat. A few hanging around the church parking lot across from Rhodes Park.

Also did see a SW about the 670 and 5 th ave stop light across from Wendy's but it may have been a cross dressing guy. Looked a little too rough to be a girl.

Be careful, if it don't feel right it's porbably not right. I'll take pics next time

[Booner]

BSG,

Good looking out! I also was in the Bottoms yesterday & thought a brunette looked to good to be out there. I didn't pull up to her, due to fear that she was a LE decoy. Glad I didn't take the plunge yesterday morning.

[Broad St Guy]

Broad St Guy

Wow, talk about good intuition. There were several busted at Chi/Broad on Wed.

I did a check on the Public Access site. Most of the busts on Monday happened on the eastside around Main/Hampton & Main/Elizabeth....and a couple up north Lakeview/Cleveland.

I imagine more westside arrests will be posted soon.

Yeah - while she look really good and was tempting - there were several red flags for me. She just did not fit in. I am not saying an experienced monger can not be caught - but an experienced monger would have passed this one by I would think. I don't want to go into the details that gave it away, but something about her made me keep on trucking. Also I was on my way somewhere and was not really looking to get my monger on. Luck only goes so far. Always better to follow gut feelings and use the right head for thinking.

I think from the video, it is clear what to watch for in talking to SW. Also I would lay odds those taped convesations of the decoy occured with the decoy on the drivers side window. Huge red flag. Drive away. If the girl won't get in the car, drive and chat for awhile. Forget it.

Did you see any bust on the site in the Sullivant area? Curious as the news video shows the Sunoco on Sully.

[ILuvIt]

Broad St Guy

Wow, talk about good intuition. There were several busted at Chi/Broad on Wed.

I did a check on the Public Access site. Most of the busts on Monday happened on the eastside around Main/Hampton & Main/Elizabeth....and a couple up north Lakeview/Cleveland.

I imagine more westside arrests will be posted soon.

[BigHardOne]

http://www.wbns10tv.com/?sec=&story=...718565283.html

Wow - this in on 10tv - the Combined totals for 3 days was 69 people busted according to the video. They did it Monday, Tuesday and Wed. The video shows Rhoades park for sure. They also show briefly the Sunoco area on Sully.

If the West Side was dry before - it most certainly is now.

Hey, be careful out there. It said in the news story that the cops are going to be doing this the rest of the week but not saying where they will be doing it. Keep your eyes open for anything unusual. If you see something, report it on here to save someone some possible heartache.

[Broad St Guy]

http://www.wbns10tv.com/?sec=&story=...718565283.html

Wow - this in on 10tv - the Combined totals for 3 days was 69 people busted according to the video. They did it Monday, Tuesday and Wed. The video shows Rhoades park for sure. They also show briefly the Sunoco area on Sully.

If the West Side was dry before - it most certainly is now.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Officers with the Columbus police vice squad said they came close to breaking a record on Wednesday after making more than 30 arrests on the city's west side.

The arrests were made in an effort to stop men and women from soliciting sex on city streets, 10TV's Angela An reported.

During the three-day undercover operation, police said 69 men and women were arrested in the neighborhood near Broad Street and Central Avenue.

The operation began on Monday when, according to police, 17 men and women were arrested for soliciting and prostitution. On Tuesday, 19 more arrests were made, An reported.

On Wednesday, 33 people were taken into custody, police said. According to vice officers, the record for number of arrests in one day is 34.

During the operation, it wasn't just prostitutes being arrested, but also the men who come to find them. Most police refer to them as 'Johns,' An reported.

Two undercover police officers who pose as prostitutes spoke with 10TV and said the disease and health issues that surround prostitution make it a much bigger problem than most people give it credit for.

"They call it a victimless crime, but it's not," one of the officers said. "You're taking it home to your wife and kids and families and anyone else who knows you."

An undercover Columbus police sergeant said there isn't really a demographic of people that they see more often when dealing with prostitution. The people arrested in the past three days ranged from 23 to 76, and were arrested as early as 6 a.m., An reported.

"Some are unemployed, retired, old people and young people," the sergeant said. "So I don't think you can put a demographic on who we get as much as it really affects all of society."

Police acknowledge that the age-old problem of prostitution never seems to go away, but they said efforts must be made or it could overtake neighborhoods.

Stay with 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for additional information.

[Hotrodz123]

Yea, I was watching the news last night and they had a sting going on using female and male decoys arresting over 60 people in total.

[Broad St Guy]

I don't patronize SW, but I watch TV.
Channel 6 says LE have been busting and replacing with decoys- past few days.
Channel 6 mentioned LE are taking their Roxannes and Johns to Rhodes Park to transfer them to the paddy wagon. Although I have been reading enough to know you all are very careful and know the best approach, but you might want to check out Rhodes Park (or nearby park) to see if LE are active before approaching a 'new/ different' SW.

Great time to take some pics of 'new' or never seen before SW and post them here- so people can identify the 'new' SW that people should be wary of.

PS the news mentioned something to the effect that the arrests are a lost cause, no matter what most woman go back to work, etc.

Ha - I knew I had a feeling about that blonde on Broad yesterday I reported on. Something just told me it was not right.

[Whoah28]

I don't patronize SW, but I watch TV.
Channel 6 says LE have been busting and replacing with decoys- past few days.
Channel 6 mentioned LE are taking their Roxannes and Johns to Rhodes Park to transfer them to the paddy wagon. Although I have been reading enough to know you all are very careful and know the best approach, but you might want to check out Rhodes Park (or nearby park) to see if LE are active before approaching a 'new/ different' SW.

Great time to take some pics of 'new' or never seen before SW and post them here- so people can identify the 'new' SW that people should be wary of.

PS the news mentioned something to the effect that the arrests are a lost cause, no matter what most woman go back to work, etc.

[Harleyrider55]

Was strolling the East Livingston and Main Street area early this morning and came across Danielle, a nice looking WSW that was very proficient. While there were plenty to pick from in all shapes and sizes, she seemed less anxious than all the rest. Gave a great BBBJCIM and not once did she talk roses. While she was doing the deed she took off her clothes and made herself very 'accessible'.

She had an excellent place to go to and will definitely look for her in the future. She did say that LEO has been pretty active on the Eastside since the Bottoms/Hilltop massacre and that many of the girls from the westside were not strolling the eastside.

Unfortunately she didn't have digits but did say she was out regularly in that area.

Happy Hunting...

P.S. There were at least 10 ladies out this morning in that area. Of the 10 that I saw, 9 were definitely acceptable. Of the ten, 7 were BSW and 3 were WSW. I had been on the westside earlier in the evening and didn't see squat except for LEO and obvious locals just out walking around.

[Broad St Guy]

On my way to work this morning - around 10:45am this morning I saw a really nice looking blonde at Broad and Chicago. Nice build and all. Looked clean. She was giving the look for sure. I did have the time. She had on grey shorts and grey tank top and flip flops. Never had seen her before. Maybe was a decoy? Who knows. Anybody else see her lately?

Met up with Carrie yesterday morning in Hilltop area. Brunette. Nice little rack - but a bit geeked out for me. Gave good service though.

[Hell Rayser]

Was traveling through from missouri and already scored ealier in the day with a super hot young girl in Indy(see Indy board) So I got off I 70 at broad almost out of gas and saw another hot young girl near the ice cream shop but I needed to get gas first and lost sight of her. Then found, the name slips my mind. 30 somthing wsw took me to an out of the way place business closed on sundays and we did the deed. .4 for fs Now only if I could have scored in Columbia Missouri and then in East St Louis Illinois I could get 4 states in one day. Maybe we will have to do that on the way home.

Looking forward to Jessica in Indy again