staarmrt: Sp cq environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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staarmrt: Sp cq police community members

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

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2. How concerned is the community?

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

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

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

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staarmrt: Sp cq drugs

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

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

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3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

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staarmrt: Sp cq current response

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

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

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

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4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

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

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

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7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

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

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

bmp: 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 is only known for street prostitution to take the one form of 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)?

The prostitutes are known to be ages from teenager to middle age, unknown races, priors for prostitution, taking drugs such as cocaine or heroin, and having a violent home.

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

Street prostitutes are believed to not rob or commit crimes against their clients, as they need to make money from them.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

SP are the victims of crime, as many suffer under drug abuse or domestic assault.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

SP are committed to their work fully if they use drugs heavily, have no other source of income, or have a violent home.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

They are committed to locations that offer their type of business, areas that pay more or are more safe, or offer drugs.

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.

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