mjarriel: Sp cq drugs

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

Incredibly! Drugs are a strong motivator for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. Most are only in the field to fuel their drug habits.

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

Yes, everything is intertwined.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

I'm sure many would prefer money, because they can use it to provide their own supply or pay off their drug dealers who they may owe money to.

mjarriel: Sp cq clients johns

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

Many clients are white, middle age, married, and are often repeat offenders.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

At the first chance of trouble, clients will abandon the prostitute to avoid a run in with the police, or potentially getting killed or mugged.

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

Community leaders and service providers are concerned for different reasons, Community leaders want their residents and neighborhoods to remain safe and clean, while service leaders often care about the young women who are turning to prostitution to make money.

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

They are committed to dark, less traveled areas to avoid the risks of being seen.

BOBO0608: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

The johns drive up and down the main street and sometimes the back dark area land the women come and find the men.

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

From vehicles mostly but some are on foot.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

Surrounding vacant buildings, luckys bar, secret hotel,

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

Yes the johns wear condoms.

BOBO0608: 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)?

No it is only the straight variety.

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

For the most part they have a substance abuse history, are women, and some of them have dependent kids.

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

Yes some of them do, but mostly against the non regulars.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Some of them are it depends on the area.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

Very, sometimes the money is good or they are able to score drugs off of the johns.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

Very committed to the area around Lucky's Bar where the bartenders help put the prostitutes in exchange for money. On top of that around that area are vacant buildings where the girls take the johns.

BOBO0608: Sp cq pimps

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

A small amount of the girls have pimps or work for a drug dealer who they owe money to.

BOBO0608: Sp cq drugs

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

Pretty heavily due to some of the prostitutues actually being paid with drugs instead of cash.

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

Yes

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

Yes

BOBO0608: 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 are middle class and male.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

Most of the clients go and see if there are any new regulars or girls who look clean and if there arent any then they will either look into the bar or will just leave for the night.

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

The people who are most concerned are business owners, residents of the areas close by because of the drug users leaving their syringes.

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

Most of the johns look for prostitues near the secret hotel and luckys bar on the lower end of the street

micko1234: 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 are men in their thirties and a little bit older. They are mostly white men, and they have a little bit more money and they usually are single men.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

They will go up and down the street trying to find the right woman for them. Next they will go to bars and clubs to find them also. Then will get hotels for them.

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

Store owner because they are losing business. they also may have to close down and cause people are not coming anymore and changing hours.

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

Pretty good south side was real bad about things.

Rianne_M: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

Negotiations typically occur on the street when clients drive by and slow down near prostitutes. The prostitute will approach the vehicle, and pricing is discussed. If agreed, the prostitute enters the car and leaves the area. Some methods involve clients visiting bars (ex: Lucky’s Bar or Lazy Lounge), where prostitutes are known to be at. After interacting inside, they leave together. In some cases, prostitutes and clients use hotels like Secrete Inn. Prostitutes often wait in shadows or less visible areas and only step

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

Clients do both. Many solicit from vehicles by circling the area until they find a prostitute, some approach on foot, especially after visiting nearby bars or being dropped off by taxis.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

Transactions take place in cars, nearby hotels such as Secrete Inn, and occasionally in more secluded areas like alleyways or parking lots. Bars may also serve as initial meeting points before moving to a more private location.

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

Some precautions may be taken, such as a condom, but evidence suggests inconsistent protection. Public health reports of rising sexually transmitted diseases and the presence of discarded condoms indicate that safe practices are not always followed. This suggests a significant public health risk associated with these transactions.

chloee.graack: Sp cq current response

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

There is no current policy besides arresting them. Having officers focus on the prostitution issue takes them away from their other responsibilities which cannot occur. There is also not enough resources or manpower to overcome this issue.

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

Arrest those loitering, curb crawling, or doing drugs.

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

The typical sentence handed out to those who are convicted are charges of loitering for the purposes of prostitution or curb-crawling.

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

No because the charges are typically difficult to prove in some jurisdictions and can't be fully prosecuted.

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

The imposition of a sentence does not deter individuals from being involved with prostitution because majority of the time, those involved are not prosecuted.

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

Officers will either patrol the area more or even call the families and employers of "Johns" if they see them again knowing how threatening the risk can be to them.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

They are. Prostitution typically lowers slightly. Pimps and clients are more likely to be afraid of getting arrested or officers contacting their families if they are seen again.

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

There are job services and rehabilitation programs being ran by the members of churches in order to help. There are also rehab facilities dedicated to helping drug addicts.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

Some are. One prostitute is in rehab for her prior drug addiction.

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