El Cajon city PD posts pictures of prostitutes on probation
It's really disgusting that the cops choose to single out people convicted of solicitation. There is many other crimes that are much more serious and the cops don't routinely post their photos.
What's really ironic is that their has been a major increase in SW's on ECB SD the past month or so and the cops have not stepped up their enforcement much. It's only within the past week or so that the cops have started to crack down more.
These actions show that the patrol cops realize that prostitution is a nuisance crime and they have told me so. The police brass regard prostitution enforcement as easy PR for the dept.
"Prostitutes' photos, case details put online
Police hope it deters crime; clients' mug shots to come
By Mark Arner and Liz Neely
STAFF WRITERS
([url]http://www.elcajonpolice.org/Probation/index.html[/url] )
"October 30, 2007
EL CAJON – Mug shots of convicted prostitutes are appearing on the El Cajon Police Department's Web site. Police hope to discourage them from plying their trade in town using a 21st-century version of public flogging.
Online: For more information, go to elcajonpolice.org/ and click on Geo Probation
Pictures of 11 women, details of their crimes and areas where they are banned from loitering were posted as of yesterday. Police said they plan to add pictures of convicted “johns” – the clients – within weeks. They are urging viewers to report when the offenders violate probation.
“Our Web site is always in revision,” said El Cajon police Chief Cliff Diamond. “We have always viewed it as a good intervention tool to keep our community apprised of crime trends, wanted persons and missing persons.” "
Clicker619 & ECC pictures
It seems as though 99% of the pictures of SW's the cops post are ugly. That's probably one of the best deterrent I can think of to discourage guys from picking up SW's.
CL restriction:
I am not certain if a CL restriction would hold up if it were challenged in a higher court. The web is considered to have no boundaries so laws are harder to enforce. This upsside however is that this could force more CL girls to work the streets and improve the price, quality and selection for us.
Ed Norton (El Cajon City)
I think this whole picture posting is a way for ECC PD to generate good PR for the dept. I don't get out to El Cajon City much, but there is only 1 or 2 SW's there. If t here was a lot of sw's then we would see a lot more posts about ECC.