ambrospe: Sp cq pimps
It looks like many of them dont have pimps. The money they earn is sometimes so little that they spend it all on drugs.
ambrospe: Sp cq environment
1. Does street prostitution take place in more than one area?
Yes.
2. What conditions make the area(s) attractive for street prostitution?
Honestly, i want to say the type of clients they are looking for is where they are going. For example, college campuses.
3. If street prostitution occurs in several areas, how are they similar and different?
They are similar in the fact that the areas that have store shut down and there is only liquor stores and bars.
4. What area businesses are harmed by the presence of street prostitution?
Clothing shops or shopping districts is where prostitution caused for them to shut down.
5. What area businesses support and/or benefit from street prostitution?
Bars and Liquor stores
6. Is the street prostitution market in each area old or new? Has it changed in size recently? If so, why?
I want to say that it is new and not changed in size.
7. Do street prostitution areas have a reputation as being dangerous or safe for clients?
It has a reputation for being dangerous for clients.
8. Are street prostitution areas isolated, or busy with other activities?
They are busy with drug trafficking as well.
9. What other types of crime occur in the area? How much is related to street prostitution?
It looks like thefts and assaults are major crimes with assaults being high with prostitution.
10. If street prostitution were forced out of a target area, where would you predict it might reappear?
I want to say that the prostitues would just find some other place where maybe its not as monitored by police.
ambrospe: Sp cq street prostitutes
1. Does street prostitution take only one form (e.g., female prostitutes and male clients), or are there several different forms (e.g., homosexual or transvestite prostitution)?
It does look like street restitution only takes one form that being female prostites and male clients.
2. What is known about the prostitutes (e.g., age, gender, race, criminal history, social service history, substance abuse history, residence)?
It looks like the majority of them do it for drugs and money.
3. Do street prostitutes commit crimes against clients (e.g., robbery or theft)?
It looks like the prostitutes dont but the clients do get violent.
4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?
Yes.
5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?
Very committed. They are lowering their prices just to get cash and sometimes exchange sex for drugs.
6. How committed are they to a particular location?
Somewhat committed. I say this because some of them already know what to do if there is an area that isn’t safe. They know where to go and when to go back.
ambrospe: Sp cq sexual transactions
1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?
The clients sometimes go into the drug neighborhoods and look for prostitutes there and exchange their own drugs for oral sex.
2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?
Both
3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?
Anywhere really In a car, somewhere vacant, in bathrooms and more areas.
4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?
Jewlee says that she makes all of her clients wear condoms though i do not know if they get regularly checked out at the doctors to see if they have any type of STDs.
ambrospe: Sp cq drugs
1. To what extent are street prostitutes, clients and pimps engaged in the sale or use of drugs?
Some prostitues are so addicted to drugs that they lower the cost for their sex work and sometimes even get paid with drugs, The John’s will pay them with drugs insead of cash.
2. Are street prostitution and street drug markets near each other?
It looks like it is. Betts says that she sometimes goes to the street drug market whenever things get hot with the police.
3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?
Yes, sometimes they do when they are desperate to get their fix in.
aquattrone01: Sp cq street prostitutes
1. Does street prostitution take only one form (e.g., female prostitutes and male clients), or are there several different forms (e.g., homosexual or transvestite prostitution)?
There are different forms but mostly female
2. What is known about the prostitutes (e.g., age, gender, race, criminal history, social service history, substance abuse history, residence)?
Most are women with substance abuse or poor
3. Do street prostitutes commit crimes against clients (e.g., robbery or theft)?
no
4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?
yes
5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?
very committed and feel so trapped that they cant leave
6. How committed are they to a particular location?
not terribly committed but like the reassurance of being with regulars
aquattrone01: Sp cq sexual transactions
1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?
Through cash often times or with the client in the car
2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?
Vehicle more often but both
3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?
In the car or vehicles
4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?
Yes condoms
aquattrone01: Sp cq environment
1. Does street prostitution take place in more than one area?
Yes particularly the southside
2. What conditions make the area(s) attractive for street prostitution?
Low lighting increased traffic and low police presence with bars and areas for prostitutes to stake out
3. If street prostitution occurs in several areas, how are they similar and different?
It occurs in several areas where there is easy access for prostitutes to flee but in locations with enough clients to spot them
4. What area businesses are harmed by the presence of street prostitution?
Newer businesses on the north side
5. What area businesses support and/or benefit from street prostitution?
The bars and casinos
6. Is the street prostitution market in each area old or new? Has it changed in size recently? If so, why?
old but has been increasing recently
7. Do street prostitution areas have a reputation as being dangerous or safe for clients?
Yes dangerous many girls have been assaulted and went to the clinic then returned to prostitution
8. Are street prostitution areas isolated, or busy with other activities?
Yes they are
9. What other types of crime occur in the area? How much is related to street prostitution?
Some robberies and assaults occur as well
10. If street prostitution were forced out of a target area, where would you predict it might reappear?
yes in another neighboring area the level of prostitution increases as the enforcement increases over here
ambrospe: Sp cq police community members
1. How concerned is the police department about street prostitution?
it doesn’t look like most of then are concerned. Some want to impose curfews and scare them by telling them to get off the street so that they are not visible.
It doesn’t look like they are taking it seriously as they will not really report it correctly and threaten to the Johns that they ill tell their families.
It doesn’t look like they are taking it seriously as they will not really report it correctly and threaten to the Johns that they ill tell their families.
2. How concerned is the community?
They are concerned. Some want there to be curfews while others want there to be a total ban on it
3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?
I want to say that all groups are concerned with it. Again, some of them want to criminalize it while others want to help them out like the church.
4. How organized and active are community members who oppose street prostitution?
It looks like all groups of people are opposed to street prostitution and all want to ban it.
5. What level of street prostitution are they willing to tolerate?
It doesn’t look like there is a level that they are willing to tolerate. Most of it want to ban it completely.
aquattrone01: Sp cq pimps
1. Do the prostitutes work for pimps or others who profit from their income?
Yes the bartender has a way of calling and informing several girls of potential clients