Streetwalker Reports

[QUOTE=Hellman5]
It seems that the real "crime" here is that public money is being so completely wasted on this issue.

What gives? Are politicians influencing LAPD to crack down? Or is it just
the LAPD misapproprating funds, because it is so relatively easy to "shoot fish in a barrel"?[/QUOTE]

That fish in a barrel thing means that LE gets arrest numbers relatively easy. This is good for them since it shows to the politicians and the public that they are doing their job.

Also since sw's are sooooo visable to the average citizen, its a good way for police to develop goodwill with the community and also to show that the police are responsive to the communities needs.

From the police point of view....I guarantee you the Chief and higher ups only see what I stated above....the numbers and community opinion and nothing more. However, from the captains at the stations and lower.......those guys often have some sort of moral imperative....they sometimes think its really bad for guys to solicit prostitutes. Thats why on the cop shows, there is always a SGT or LT going on with that stupid propaganda about how prostitution isn't a victimless crime blah blah blah. But sometimes those guys are just wanting to get promoted too.

Cracking down on prostitutes is low risk and good PR for the cops and DA...!

It's very rare a SW will carry a gun and much less risk than arresting some gang member. I doubt the restraining orders will work. LA simply to big of area with to many streets. The other factor is that SW's are transient in nature and jump form town to town. It might be good for us since it may create new strolls.

Defense lawyer: Intent to solicit
Both the civil and criminal law has been overturned by the courts. Let's also remember that the law also specifies "circles and repeatedly beckons.". So one has to beckon as well to be considered a crime. The LA cops tried impounding cars with the "civil intent to solicit" a few years back until the DA told them it was not legal. You may run into a cop who will arrest you simply to cause you some problems. So if there is crackdown in progress use extra caution.




4) Circles an area in a motor vehicle and repeatedly beckons to,
contacts, or attempts to contact or stop pedestrians or other
motorists, indicative of soliciting for prostitution.

They will just move. I've noticed a higher level of talent on Imperial Blvd lately.

Heading up to OC on wednesday. I will most likely Cruise Harbor, PCH then to LBB. Fig possibly and then downtown. I am probably going to skip Holt because it is so far out of the way. Plus the action seems sporadic on Holt. If anyone has any hot WSW contacts please PM me. The other factor is that the action in SD has been fairly good. So it's hard to justify wasting a lot of gas in LA unless there is a exceptional SW..?

I don't want any of you to get false comfort from the state supreme court's striking down of the civil impound statutes. Mind you, it's nice that the police can't take your car and force you to sue to get it back (in fact, it's completely outrageous that they were ever able to do that). However, this has not been found unconstitutional. Rather, the Courts found that the local impounding statutes for various offenses was preempted by state law on the subject, and that local entities could not pass similar laws that expanded the state law (which does not provide for impounding for prostitution.

The striking down of these local ordinances has absolutely nothing to do with local law enforcement's ability to enforce the relevant penal codes (such as 647 - prostitution, or 653.22 - loitering with the intent ....)

Some the other writers are right on point about why the police so vigorously pursue these things. But don't forget, these vice squads are relics from previous eras, when the police would enforce prohibition, or blue laws, or dancing ordinances, or they would entrap gay men into agreeing to have sex (they used to charge a gay man who agreed to have sex with an undercover cop with 647(a), lewd conduct, which also used to be registerable as a sex offense).

The Chief Parker and Chief Gates mold, which called for overwhelming force as to the most trivial problems, let to the expansion of even these units like vice, and vice is also one of the most sought after units to be in. Chief Bratton, with his broken windows theory, takes this just as far as the previous chiefs, but from a less militaristic viewpoint.

I think that the only thing which will change this focus is our budget crisis. If things get bad enough, maybe there will be a groundswell to change things. Until then, don't hold your breath.

[QUOTE=Hizark21]Heading up to OC on wednesday. I will most likely Cruise Harbor, PCH then to LBB. Fig possibly and then downtown. I am probably going to skip Holt because it is so far out of the way. Plus the action seems sporadic on Holt. If anyone has any hot WSW contacts please PM me. The other factor is that the action in SD has been fairly good. So it's hard to justify wasting a lot of gas in LA unless there is a exceptional SW..?[/QUOTE]

If you are looking for WSW don't waste your time on Fig, nor LBB, rarely are any available. The street scene has been generally barren these days.

[QUOTE=Thomas Sas]They will just move. I've noticed a higher level of talent on Imperial Blvd lately.[/QUOTE]

Where in the world is Imperial Blvd? I know of Imperial Hwy, but not any blvd.-

[QUOTE=Marlowe]Where in the world is Imperial Blvd? I know of Imperial Hwy, but not any blvd.-[/QUOTE]Sorry. Yes the hwy. More toward the Hawthorne end. The same crackheads are in Inglewood part of Imperial.

[QUOTE=Hizark21]Cracking down on prostitutes is low risk and good PR for the cops and DA...!

It's very rare a SW will carry a gun and much less risk than arresting some gang member. I doubt the restraining orders will work. LA simply to big of area with to many streets. The other factor is that SW's are transient in nature and jump form town to town. It might be good for us since it may create new strolls.[/QUOTE]

It's not just fish in a barrel, this country has a very strange, almost Victorian view of sex. On the surface, we abhor sexual activities, cry out with indignation at a nipple shown on television, and freak at the idea of young people having sex.

In reality, we're all bonking each other as fast and as often as we can, and with whoever we can do it with. I mean, we live in a country where we'd officially rather stick our fingers in our ears and start singing loudly than listen to the fact that teenagers will have sex, and the responsible thing to do is to educate them on safe sex and how to be responsible.

Prostitution is one of those "morality" issues that gets people pissed and upset. In a country where it's legalized, and regulated, most of the negative social aspects of the trade would go away. However, the idea of paying for sex is morally insulting to our population, which is ironically by and large hypocrites on the issue (taking a woman out to an expensive dinner and buying her stuff so she'll bob your knob is prostitution in my book). I find it amusing that it's morally just to go after prostitution, but it's totally cool to destroy school funding and make it as hard as possible on kids to have a fighting chance, ensuring that some of them *will* sell themselves for sex. I find it even more ironic that some of the biggest family values politicians are the biggest perverted scumbags out there.

If prostitution was legal in the U.S. imagine all the marriages that would fail. The U.S. divorce rate is already between 50% & 70%.

Imagine all the brothels that would open up. Imagine the price wars, like airlines do. If all a man wants is sex, there would be less dates with women who don't put out. If a guy has a long, hard day @ work, he can stop by a bar, have a few beers, then go to a brothel, toss up a chick, & then go home to that nagging,fat slob of a wife, if he has one. Aargh!

[QUOTE=Thomas Sas]Sorry. Yes the hwy. More toward the Hawthorne end. The same crackheads are in Inglewood part of Imperial.[/QUOTE]

Thanks, so past the freeway, but before the 405?

[QUOTE=Marlowe]Thanks, so past the freeway, but before the 405?[/QUOTE]Yes, after Inglewood ave to Hawthorne Blvd. Today I saw nothing though.

[QUOTE=Thomas Sas]Yes, after Inglewood ave to Hawthorne Blvd. Today I saw nothing though.[/QUOTE]

There was a BSW and a WSW or HSW on the bus bench just past the Acacia Inn, neither was over a 6. I circled for a closer look but the rain hit and everyone scattered and never returned.

[QUOTE=The Flatline] I find it amusing that it's morally just to go after prostitution, but it's totally cool to destroy school funding and make it as hard as possible on kids to have a fighting chance, ensuring that some of them *will* sell themselves for sex. I find it even more ironic that some of the biggest family values politicians are the biggest perverted scumbags out there.[/QUOTE]

America is becoming more and more of a police state. The Powers That Be don't want a thinking educated population -- that makes them hard
to control. Instead they want a bunch of stupid desparate people that they
can lock up in prison. Therefore cut funding for education and beef it
up for prisions and LE.

The "patriot" act makes it much easier to lock people up, and the "gestapo" police seem more than happy to ruin people's lives for trying to get a little pleasure.

America has a higher percentage of people in prison than any other country in the world. If that isn't a sign that the education and LE system is
an utter failure than I don't know what is.

The police are IMO are out of control and they are misuing funds. It's a great
disservce to the public.