Lucifer: Sp cq clients johns

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

Mostly middle age men who are looking for younger females. Most of them are not willing to get out of the car. Some have families, wives, kids, some have even already been arrested for prostitution, and being violent towards the prostitutes.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

The clients are very committed to prostitution, they enjoy it and continue to go see them in the areas where they know the prostitutes are. They are willing to risk being caught.

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

The groups that are concerned are the ones that have not shared about them picking up prostitutes because they don't know how their families, friends or others might react to it. They are ashamed and scared of being found or caught of picking prostitutes up and having sex with them.

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

Overall, most of the clients are committed to soliciting prostitutes on the street or in their areas more than 80% due to them wanting to relief themselves and have sex with younger women.

Hharwick: 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)?

As far as I read, only the normal kind. Variations are possible.

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

The women are getting younger and younger but oldest probably around there 30s.

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

Yes, robbery and theft have been mentioned.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

They can be. Some take on abuse or unwanted attention.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

They are committed enough to do it again right out of coming back from jail.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

They like a familiar location. However, if issues arise they will move.

Hharwick: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

They talk really quickly on the side of the street. Sometimes inside bars. Payment is made in cash or drugs late at night.

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

Vehicle, mainly, an occasional on foot happens in a bar.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

A hotel, in a car, in a cab, on the street in a dark area.

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

Most of the time a condom is used.

Hharwick: Sp cq police community members

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

Apparently not that oncerned.

2. How concerned is the community?

Pretty concerned. Make reports and carry out clean ups on their own.

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

Families and business owners. They are concerned about needles on the streets. Also about having to close their businesses because of the prostitutes.

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

They do cleanups in the mornings and send reports to the police.

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

A minimal amount as long as it is unseen and does not cause damage or concerns.

Hharwick: Sp cq pimps

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

Some times.

Hharwick: Sp cq environment

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

Yes, upper and lower parts.

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

Dark, crowded, run-down, with places to hide.

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

They have places to hide, but do not have officers lurking.

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

Smaller and newer ones. Any business that does not support or tolerate them.

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

Bars, sports bars, cabs, hotels, and motels.

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

Its a mix of old and new. It has increased. More girls are falling into the business.

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

They can on occasion be dangerous. They have robbed multiple clients.

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

Kind of both. They are busy but still kind of sepparated from hot spot areas.

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

Drug dealing, abuse, an occasional murder. Street prostitution contibutes quite a bit.

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

In an area similar to the original.

Hharwick: Sp cq drugs

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

Heavily. The girls accept drugs as payment. The girls also connect their clients with dealers.

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

Yes. They are pretty intertwined.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

yes.

Hharwick: Sp cq current response

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

They cannot do much. They do make some arrests, but most get out not long after and resume working the streets. They have enacted laws against prostitution and loitering for the purpose of prostitution.

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

If caught and brought in, offenders are given a court hearing. They are often released within a few days.

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

At most a few days in jail, as well as maybe some rehab.

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

yes?

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

Does not affect many. They usually end up back working the streets.

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

They shew people off the streets and into different areas.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

Not really.

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

Different rehabs, a church run program, and shelters for battered women.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

Not as much as they should.

kniskanen: Sp cq clients johns

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

Jim Paxton - Drug user

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

Jim Paxton - more committed to drugs. Will use prostitution to get to drugs.

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

Richard Meyer - Getting caught and getting a disease
Working class, teachers, military, convention organizers

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

Stanley Wiltern - look for places that do not draw to much attention. Very committed to being discrete so family, friends, and employer do not find out.

Hharwick: Sp cq clients johns

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

They range from college age to middle age. No race is specified. No particular occupations are specified. People of all different wealth take part. Mostly single men. At least half dabble in drugs.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

Clients know how it works, where to find them, and when.

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

Residents and certain business owners. Families are concerned for their childrens wellbeing. Newer and smaller businesses are concerned about having to shut down or gaining a bad reputation due to prostitutes coming in for the bathroom or other things.

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

They drive the streets at least once a week.

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