bmp: Sp cq sexual transactions

1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?

Prostitutes and clients negotiate by exchanging drugs for sex, or by slowly driving down the street looking for a girl. Clients go to drug houses, streets, or inside of bars and businesses.

2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?

Both on foot and in vehicle, but mainly from inside a car as it is felt to be the most safe for clients.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

In cars, taxis, bars, pubs, hotels, inns, vacant buildings, dark alleys and parking lots, drug houses.

4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?

Yes both take precautions as condoms are littered the mornings afterwards on the street/parking lots. Many prostitutes are booked having antibiotics and supply of condoms.

bmp: Sp cq police community members

1. How concerned is the police department about street prostitution?

Police aren't too concerned, including the commander. They understand and hear the complaints, but either don't know how, can't, or won't address and attempt to fix the major issue in their community. Detectives are most concerned.

2. How concerned is the community?

Service providers, community leaders, and business owners on the lower end of the street are all concerned moreso it seems than the police.

3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?

The service providers, police detectives, and business owners because they experience the prostitution and drug issues first hand. Specific concerns are losing businesses, people moving out of the area, the prostitutes and their well-being, and concerns of how police and certain businesses conduct against prostitution.

4. How organized and active are community members who oppose street prostitution?

Community members are not organized enough, but some do offer aid and support to prostitutes and those in need of shelter, etc.

5. What level of street prostitution are they willing to tolerate?

Police and some community members are willing to tolerate prostitution if there are none on the street, which means the problem is still there, just hidden inside businesses mainly on the upper street.

bmp: Sp cq environment

1. Does street prostitution take place in more than one area?

Yes, local businesses like bars, hanging out spots, alleys, vacant buildings, cars, taxis, hotels.

2. What conditions make the area(s) attractive for street prostitution?

The main street but lower, poorer end of it, where clients in cars can approach prostitutes. The lower end also is the drug market, so the availability of drugs is to be considered. The upper, higher end of the street allows escorts to easily get clients, and more safely. Inside businesses like bars, hotels that cater or pimp prostitutes for more business and profit.

3. If street prostitution occurs in several areas, how are they similar and different?

Upper end of the street is where businesses cater to prostitutes, allowing them to hang inside at bars and such, which allows them to get clients more safely and easily, with more profit. The lower end of the street is more violent, with drugs involved as well. Clients are more violent, not as profitable for prostitutes.

4. What area businesses are harmed by the presence of street prostitution?

Mason Engineering, where employees' cars are broken into, things stolen, and employees soliciting prostitutes during shifts. Crafty Furniture Store having prostitutes soliciting near the store, or on drugs, as well as litter and unconscious women out back in the loading dock.

5. What area businesses support and/or benefit from street prostitution?

Bars, inns, hotels, clubs, etc. Any bar or hangout place where people can meet. Certain bars, inns, and clubs encourage prostitution for business, and do not care. Significant mention of college kids being part of the business.

6. Is the street prostitution market in each area old or new? Has it changed in size recently? If so, why?

Street prostitution has increased with the development of the upper end of Scott Avenue, and the decay of the economy in the lower end of the street. New prostitution in the upper end, less street walkers and more escorts and such inside businesses. Lower end is streetwalkers and drug dealing in front of local businesses. Both increased.

7. Do street prostitution areas have a reputation as being dangerous or safe for clients?

Lower end of the street where the drug market also exists is where clients are more violent. Drug dealing and fights where women have to go to the hospital for emergency medical services.

8. Are street prostitution areas isolated, or busy with other activities?

A mixture of both isolated and mixed with activities. Drug dealing at the same time as street prostitution. Driving while having a sexual interaction with prostitutes.

9. What other types of crime occur in the area? How much is related to street prostitution?

Drug dealing for prostitution is the main crime; many prostitutes exchange sex for drugs with their clients, so it is related heavily to prostitution. Assault is also prevalent with prostitution.

10. If street prostitution were forced out of a target area, where would you predict it might reappear?

Street prostitution if forced out one area will find its way into another area, either a rundown, economically poor area, or a fancy area with profiting businesses that cater to prostitution.

bmp: Sp cq drugs

1. To what extent are street prostitutes, clients and pimps engaged in the sale or use of drugs?

Street prostitutes exchange drugs for sex, vice versa with the clients. Pimps of local businesses require cash for prostitutes to solicit in or around their businesses.

2. Are street prostitution and street drug markets near each other?

Yes street prostitution and drug markets coexist with each other.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

Yes, the clients and prostitutes themselves said they exchange sexual interactions for drugs. Detectives and officers described similar scenarios in their interviews/reports.

bmp: Sp cq current response

1. What is the police department's current policy in dealing with street prostitution?

Current policy is to keep the prostitution signs to a minimum, as the budget is too tight, too little resources and manpower to handle the street prostitution cases. Officers just move the prostitutes along when they see them.

2. What is the prosecutor's current policy regarding prostitution-related offenses?

Arrest them for prostitution, they never post bond, and then release them after having them sign a summons promising

3. What are the typical sentences handed out to those who are convicted?

Unknown, no specific sentencing mentioned

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

No it appears they're back out on the street after interacting with police

5. What effect, if any, does the imposition of a sentence have on subsequent involvement in prostitution?

No effect. There's very little records of arrests in the police arrest records yet there are many prostitutes and johns in the streets, bars, etc. One prostitute is mentioned to have been arrested over 30 times, but still on the street. If police are heavy in one area, the women move to another area.

6. What responses do police officers use, other than arrest and prosecution?

Responses include: threatening to out the johns to society, warnings to not come back to the area, send them off somewhere else, streetwalkers are complained about, not the upper scale prostitutes, threatening arrest which makes them go indoors.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

The only effective response out of the few are threatening the johns to name them, out their identities to families, relatives, to society. The clients fear getting discovered by anyone.

8. What social, health and substance abuse treatment services are available to assist prostitutes?

Services available include local drug treatment facilities, taxi cabs, sheltering, family services, and emergency medical services as well.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

Yes, many are taking drugs, using taxi fares for their work, going to shelters for a safe home, using family services to take care of their children, and going to the hospital after getting injured from assumingly their clients.

obriennh: 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)?

street prostitution in this case appears to involve female prostitutes and male clients.

2. What is known about the prostitutes (e.g., age, gender, race, criminal history, social service history, substance abuse history, residence)?

he prostitutes involved are street-based and primarily female. One victim was a 29-year-old suspected female prostitute, and several women are identified as current or convicted street prostitutes.

3. Do street prostitutes commit crimes against clients (e.g., robbery or theft)?

unsure

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Yes, street prostitutes appear to be victims of crime. A 29-year-old suspected prostitute was murdered, and a shelter counselor reported increasing violence against prostitutes with very low reporting of abuse.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

The prostitutes appear fairly committed to prostitution, as the activity remains highly visible and continues to increase despite more arrests.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

Street prostitutes appear strongly committed to the Scott Avenue area. The high visibility counts at midnight.

obriennh: Sp cq sexual transactions

1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?

street prostitutes and clients appear to negotiate transactions in public areas along the Scott Avenue corridor, particularly late at night. Visibility reports show prostitutes and clients (both in vehicles and on foot) interacting around midnight, suggesting that initial contact likely happens on the street through brief conversations or signals

2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?

Clients solicit prostitutes both on foot and from vehicles. The visibility report shows 14 johns in vehicles and 11 johns on foot at midnight, indicating that both methods are actively used in the Scott Avenue area.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

sexual transactions likely take place in nearby vehicles, motels, or abandoned buildings in the Scott Avenue area.

4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?

Unsure

obriennh: Sp cq police community members

1. How concerned is the police department about street prostitution?

The police department appears to be concerned about street prostitution, as arrests for prostitution-related offenses have doubled in the past six months. However, despite increased enforcement, the problem continues to grow, which suggests that while the department recognizes the issue.

2. How concerned is the community?

The community appears to be very concerned about the street prostitution problem. Calls for service have increased sharply (from 28 a year ago to 141 last month), and the citizen survey rated the seriousness of the problem at 8.3 out of 10.

3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?

Several groups in Central City are particularly concerned about the street prostitution problem.
Residents are worried about safety, increased violence, and the visible disorder in their neighborhood, especially late at night. Business owners are concerned that prostitution is hurting their reputation, driving away customers, and affecting economic activity on Scott Avenue. Community leaders and city officials are concerned about the rising number of complaints, robberies, and assaults, as well as the political impact of the issue with an upcoming election.

4. How organized and active are community members who oppose street prostitution?

Community members who oppose street prostitution appear to be fairly organized and active. There is a neighborhood watch block captain involved, monthly community meetings are being held, and residents have written letters to the newspaper expressing concern.

5. What level of street prostitution are they willing to tolerate?

The community appears to have a very low tolerance for street prostitution. The seriousness rating of 8.3 out of 10, the sharp increase in complaints, and public criticism in letters and meetings all suggest that residents and business owners are not willing to accept visible, open-air prostitution in the Scott Avenue area.

bmp: Sp cq clients johns

1. What is known about the clients (e.g., age, race, occupation, socio-economic status, marital status, criminal history, residence)?

Mainly male clients soliciting female prostitutes. Clients are middle-aged while prostitutes are from teenagers to middle aged. No confirmed reports of college students strolling on the street.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

They are only committed if they aren't named and no one find out about their sexual interactions with a prostitute. Many don't want to leave their cars in fear of getting caught. If the area is sketchy or seems unsafe, they'll leave and come back another time. Quoted as an addiction or power trip.

3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?

Residents, business owners and some police staff are concerned. Residents express how busy the street becomes with cars of clients, prostitutes, then afterward the amount of condoms and needles littered. Expressed concern for the children and women due to fights breaking out. There was also the addressing of the decay of the economy of Scott Avenue, and how the upper end being successful contributed to the prostitution problem. Business owners are worried about losing customers and profit, losing their stores and people leaving the area. The lack of police action against the prostitution and drug problems.

4. How committed are they to soliciting prostitutes on the street or in a particular area?

Clients drive by on the street, if an agreement is reached then the prostitute gets in the car, and the car speeds away. Another way is to go to a local bar after hours and see a prostitute inside. Alleys, vacant buildings, dark parking lots, and cars (whilst driving) are also used. Drug houses were mentioned by a client who came to look for drugs.

obriennh: Sp cq pimps

1. Do the prostitutes work for pimps or others who profit from their income?

Unsure as of yet

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