California cities rattled by prostitution, human trafficking in broad daylight as cops pin blame on new law
https://www.foxnews.com/us/californ...ficking-broad-daylight-cops-pin-blame-new-law
A road in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District has become lined with prostitutes and pimps, prompting city officials to install barricades as residents sound off that not only do they feel less safe – especially at night – but that they are worried about the women working the streets.
"From the window right there, I’ll see three [people] ganging up on a girl," one San Francisco resident told the Chronicle while pointing toward a bay window that overlooks an intersection. "They’ll be hitting her."
"I call the cops; no one comes. There’s nothing I can do," the unidentified woman said.
The issue isn’t isolated to just San Francisco, with other major cities such as Los Angeles and Oakland reporting the same.
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Police departments and Republican leaders in the state are pinning blame for the overt prostitution on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1. Senate Bill 357 repealed a previous law that banned loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution.
This supposedly well-intentioned law benefits pimps and other sex-traffickers and harms the trafficked - including trafficked minors - by forbidding police scrutiny that could detect trafficked women and girls. Whether Wiener's intentions really were "good" is a valid question ... perhaps the consequence to the trafficked was intended.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/californ...ficking-broad-daylight-cops-pin-blame-new-law
A road in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District has become lined with prostitutes and pimps, prompting city officials to install barricades as residents sound off that not only do they feel less safe – especially at night – but that they are worried about the women working the streets.
"From the window right there, I’ll see three [people] ganging up on a girl," one San Francisco resident told the Chronicle while pointing toward a bay window that overlooks an intersection. "They’ll be hitting her."
"I call the cops; no one comes. There’s nothing I can do," the unidentified woman said.
The issue isn’t isolated to just San Francisco, with other major cities such as Los Angeles and Oakland reporting the same.
...
Police departments and Republican leaders in the state are pinning blame for the overt prostitution on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1. Senate Bill 357 repealed a previous law that banned loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution.
This supposedly well-intentioned law benefits pimps and other sex-traffickers and harms the trafficked - including trafficked minors - by forbidding police scrutiny that could detect trafficked women and girls. Whether Wiener's intentions really were "good" is a valid question ... perhaps the consequence to the trafficked was intended.