FYI. There will be a meeting on June 3rd at 7 pm at Epic Life Church on Stone Ave and to discuss crime concerns and possible solutions along Aurora Avenue. Assuming some sort of community outreach officer from SPD will also be there. Just in case some of you are interested in this stuff and might want to attend.
Myself, I'm on the fence about attending because as I live in the area right now all I hear from neighbors and community leaders is how all sex workers are victims and need to be protected. Essentially, they all feel and believe that SWs are not part of the problem at all, only pimps and johns are responsible for [I]all[/I] of the issues along Aurora. They don't seem to want to believe that they all go together. Hot girls in thongs standing on corners draws men and they also bring their pimps. Literally every person I've talked with in the community wants the city to enforce the loitering laws however they don't want them messing with the SWs. I always argue that if they're serious about cleaning it up, they'll need to target [I]everybody[/I] involved. Nobody wants to hear it.
The other odd thing is that they all seem to believe that every sex worker in existence in America is homeless, addicted to hard drugs, abused, exploited, trafficked by some sort of large-scale evil international trafficking cartels and completely broken. The majority of Americans have absolutely zero clue as to how any of this works and they ain't interested yet they think they can resolve issues surrounding it. So if you want to be amused and entertained by silly and goofy rhetoric about how they think they can fix a problem in which they have zero interest in knowing anything about, do attend. However it might be a good way to find out what they might do to (in their minds) combat so-called sex trafficking in the area. Right now i'm hearing about the formation of roving bands of neighborhood patrols, installation of cameras, demanding increased SPD patrols, etc.
If you go, do report back. Apologies if this post should be in a different forum.
