xstherrr: Sp cq pimps
It honestly is for both because everyone wants their own income.
Shazada: Sp cq sexual transactions
1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?
Through the car window, through drugs, or in abandoned areas.
2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?
From a vehicle.
3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?
Dark areas or abandoned areas.
4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?
Clients take precautions but not so much prostitutes.
xstherrr: Sp cq police community members
1. How concerned is the police department about street prostitution?
They are really concerned because it affects their crime reports to go up.
2. How concerned is the community?
The community is concerned due to it affecting their streets adn the saftey for their kids.
3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?
Families becasue they just want saftey for their loved ones.
4. How organized and active are community members who oppose street prostitution?
Not much as they should be, they're just scared of getting their family in trouble.
5. What level of street prostitution are they willing to tolerate?
Up to the 3rd level.
tvrrtt: Sp cq police community members
1. How concerned is the police department about street prostitution?
The police department is concerned about prostitution but wants the courts to do something because they end up back on the streets anyways.
2. How concerned is the community?
The community is concerned with the fact that the neighborhoods feel unsafe and experience more crime overall.
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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tvrrtt: Sp cq drugs
1. To what extent are street prostitutes, clients and pimps engaged in the sale or use of drugs?
Most prostitutes engage in the use of drugs.
2. Are street prostitution and street drug markets near each other?
They are near each other and most of the prostitutes know where the drugs are.
3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?
Prostitutes do exchange sex for drugs directly and most johns buy drugs to give to prostitutes.
xstherrr: 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)?
I'm not sure but i know that it doesn't matter to some clients but some do care about it.
2. What is known about the prostitutes (e.g., age, gender, race, criminal history, social service history, substance abuse history, residence)?
What's known about them is that they are any race, they do it because they're struggling, either they want the best for their family and have no other way of income, or others do it for the money.
3. Do street prostitutes commit crimes against clients (e.g., robbery or theft)?
Sometimes they do because some are desparate.
4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?
Yes they are but not really because they are choosing to do it on their own.
5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?
They are fully committed since they need money.
6. How committed are they to a particular location?
It depends because some locations are good spots to get good money and others aren't
bruiz16br: 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)?
In this case, it seems the prostitution only takes one form. The female prostitutes available for interviews are all female, and the "johns" don't seem to engage in any other form of prostitution.
2. What is known about the prostitutes (e.g., age, gender, race, criminal history, social service history, substance abuse history, residence)?
A few of the prostitutes struggled with a history of substance abuse. Lacy, for example, admitted to being addicted to heroin despite it overall affecting her available clients. Age and race weren't a factor in most of the interviews, but the age of the clientele was a big contributing factor in how they conduct their business. Some of the prostitutes I interviewed, such as Amy and Lacy, were convicted of prostitution and continued to participate in it after their release. Jackie May, a former prostitutes, says she is currently seeking help in a rehabilitation program. She says more prostitutes don't reach out because (1) they don't know about the services and (2) they're afraid of being reported.
3. Do street prostitutes commit crimes against clients (e.g., robbery or theft)?
Across the prostitutes I interviewed, it doesn't seem to be a common practice to rob their clients. Also none reported being robbed in the process of conducting their business.
4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?
Some of the prostitutes responses indicate that there is a risk of them being victims of violent crimes—more specifically assaults or murder. They indicate this in their weariness to conduct their business in more risky areas of town such as the dimly lit streets of lower Scott Ave. Multiple interviews concluded that Upper Scott Ave. was the safest and best place to conduct their business, stating clients were more scared of being seen and less likely to rob, assault, or take advantage of them.
5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?
Lacy and Amy, after being convicted of prostitution, still participated in the crime. Amy did not specify why she returned to prostitution, but she seems to have enough experience in the crime, highlighting which areas made her feel more safe. Lacy on the other hand, seemingly uses prostitution to fund her heroin addiction, despite it affecting her available clients.
6. How committed are they to a particular location?
Some are very set on operating in Upper Scott Ave., but are willing to relocate in response to police presence. Almost all of the prostitutes characterized Lower Scott Ave. as a dangerous and undesirable place to conduct their business, indicating a problem of violent clientele in that specific area.
xstherrr: Sp cq sexual transactions
1. How, specifically, do street prostitutes and clients negotiate and complete sexual transactions?
The way that they negotiate and complete sexual transactions is by just going up the the person that they need money from. Someone that looks like they'll give out their money easily. They clearly state what they want and how much they want.
2. Do clients solicit prostitutes on foot or from a vehicle?
They do it from a vehicle, never on foot since it's more of a drive by. But the prostitutes are on foot.
3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?
It depends on the person, either their own car, hotel, home, or wherever the person would like to go to.
4. Do prostitutes and clients take precautions to prevent sexually-transmitted disease?
Yes, this causes a ton of diseases since they have sexual relationships with several people. Meaning they have to get checked all the time for their safety and the other person as well.
AngelH04: Sp cq clients johns
1. What is known about the clients (e.g., age, race, occupation, socio-economic status, marital status, criminal history, residence)?
Typically older than the sex workers. May be employed, often with stable jobs. Most are single and are financially stabled. They do not have any sort of criminal history. Often live outside of the neighborhood where the prostitution occurs. Some may drive in from suburbs or other cities.
2. How committed are clients to prostitution?
They don't seem too committed, one would only go if prostitutes were on the main road, and others will go for exchange of drugs. One would go if they cant find someone and this was their only option.
3. What groups are particularly concerned and why? What specific concerns are expressed?
Local residents can be one. Decline in neighborhood quality of life. Exposure of children to sex work and its associated behaviors. Increased crime or fear of crime in the area. Business areas, because of loss of customers who don’t want to visit areas perceived as unsafe or morally questionable. Damage to business reputation, especially for hotels, convenience stores, or restaurants.
4. How committed are they to soliciting prostitutes on the street or in a particular area?
Low to Moderate Location Commitment. Many clients are opportunistic, they pick up sex workers when the opportunity arises, often while driving through known “track” areas.
Gaby_alvarez: Sp cq environment
1. Does street prostitution take place in more than one area?
yes, from hotels to streets to bars
2. What conditions make the area(s) attractive for street prostitution?
dim lights, rich clients, easy to get into a car, easy to be undetected
3. If street prostitution occurs in several areas, how are they similar and different?
similar clients, similar tactics,
4. What area businesses are harmed by the presence of street prostitution?
drycleaners, some hotels, some bars,
5. What area businesses support and/or benefit from street prostitution?
Bars do and hotels. Bars because certain ones are a known area where clients could pick up a prostitute, and hotels are an easy way for them to get multiple clients quickly throughout the night
6. Is the street prostitution market in each area old or new? Has it changed in size recently? If so, why?
Its an older street, sometimes the ladies will travel up north for clients with more money. It had recently gone down in its quality, with all the drug, prostitution, and lack of care for the area
7. Do street prostitution areas have a reputation as being dangerous or safe for clients?
They can be dangerous in terms of the client being in risk of being exposed,as well as some robberies from the prostitutes
8. Are street prostitution areas isolated, or busy with other activities?
They tend to be more isolated, areas that are dark, have alley ways, and allow the ladies to be easily concealable are more favored by street prostitution.
9. What other types of crime occur in the area? How much is related to street prostitution?
Drug selling, theft and robberies, assaults. They are closely related to the prostitutions
10. If street prostitution were forced out of a target area, where would you predict it might reappear?
The prostitution would find a different area that meets the same criteria that scott street does now for them. I think some will also follow where the drugs go.