quinfer05: Sp cq clients johns

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

patronizing prosititues

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

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

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

kyliefau: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

They pay upfront

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

They stand on streets and look for vehicles or people

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

Streets.

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

Condoms are usually used.

kyliefau: Sp cq police community members

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

They are not as concerned for the individuals in the act, they are concerned for the community it hurts.

2. How concerned is the community?

It is ruining businesses and schools.

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

Business Owners, residents, students. It is unsafe

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

They say their thoughts and are able to protest.

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

They do not want diseases, litter, buisness harm.

kyliefau: 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 situation, it is middle aged men with younger women. Prostitution though can come in many forms.

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

There is substance abuse involved and this gives them motivation to recieve more money for drugs

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

They may steal money from clients, but this action affects the business of other prostitutes nearby

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Yes

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

They are committed because of money.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

They build clients.

Breckin Foran: Sp cq drugs

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

It seems like there is a clear relation between the drug issue and prostitution issue within the city. People who want drugs but can't find a seller seem to know that where there are prostitutes, there are also drugs.

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

Yes, as stated above, it seems that people who want drugs often seek out prostitutes. It seems like where there are prostitutes there are drugs.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

It seems that on certain occasions, prostitutes exchange sex with their clients in return for drugs

AdrianEidge: Sp cq police community members

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

“We can’t change these women; all we can do is arrest them. It’s the court that needs to do more. Most of the time, the prostitutes are back on the street the day after we book them. My unit has arrested some of these women over thirty times, and they’re still working the streets."

2. How concerned is the community?

“Our neighborhood group complains to the area police commander at nearly every meeting. We are always told, ‘If you see something, call us and we’ll take care of it. ’ We feel there is little we can do if the police are so ineffective at dealing with the problem. Heck, we’re willing to overlook the problem of prostitution if something could be done about the drug sales and strangers in our neighborhood, but we’d rather see an end to both problems. I’ve heard they’re trying to get a program going at one of the churches in town. I’d be willing to help if I thought something like that could work.”

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

The atmosphere created by the evidence of streetwalkers makes it impossible to attract new business to the area. The police could do a lot more to tackle the prostitution problem. I am ready and willing to help in any way that I can. Many of my constituents are leaving the area because they are afraid housing prices will continue to fall.” All groups of the community are concerned except for the bars that make money off of prostitution.

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

They can't do more than what the police does but the community watch is active on calling the police and the community as a whole is active at reporting concerns

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

No level of prostitution

AdrianEidge: Sp cq drugs

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

They usually all have something to do with drugs and most prostitutes will take drugs as payment

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

Yes they are closely aligned

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

“Yea, I'm a heroin addict. I work the bars along the lower blocks of Scott Avenue. I don't make as much money as the sober girls -- most johns don't like the fact that I have a drug problem, so I have to charge them a lot less. Of course, it depends on what time of day it is, and how badly I need a fix. I'd like to work the upper part of Scott Avenue. The money is a lot better there and the johns aren't as likely to get violent.” “I drive into the city just to buy drugs. But it's real easy to find prostitutes, especially around the drug houses. Sometimes I will offer to exchange or share some of the drugs for oral sex. If I have any trouble finding the dope man, I just find a prostitute. They always know where to buy drugs.”

AdrianEidge: Sp cq current response

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

However, with the sudden increase in activity in both lower and upper sections of Scott Avenue, Central City will aggressively target the offenders to eradicate the problem.

Arrests of streetwalkers—as opposed to “johns”—were made on several Central City streets last year, including three sections of Scott Avenue, two areas of Carter Street and two sections along Breeze Street. This year, the activity has been more rampant but confined along Scott Avenue.

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

Harsh punishment

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

Harsh sentences but not harsh enough for offenders to stop

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

Yes but they usually offend again.

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

It helps but does not stop prostitution.

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

Whenever I see a girl outside the 300 block of Scott Avenue, I threaten to arrest her if she doesn’t immediately leave the area. This usually forces the girls to stay inside the local bars and motels, keeping them out of sight.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

Usually when I see one of the girls, I send her back to the 200 or 300 block of Scott Avenue with a warning not to show up here again. I have to keep the local business community happy, and I can’t do that if I'm off my beat locking up some hooker.

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

“I have seen reports that prostitutes are brought in to the local drug treatment facilities only when an overdose has occurred. They remain in the treatment program just long enough to get back on their feet, and then return to the street.” There are rehab centers and multiple support services.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

“I wish more attention was paid to these children and to the girls when they first end up on the street, before they get sick or hardened. Most of the women I see feel trapped...they prostitute because they feel they have to, they have no other choice. We need to provide alternatives, especially early on.” Yes they use services but usually return back to the street.

AdrianEidge: Sp cq environment

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

Everywhere but mainly in the same area.

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

Bars or run down places that attract a lot of people all the time.

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

They are all near places that have social life. The 200 block of Scott Avenue is dotted with several small neighborhood bars and a few storefronts. Over the past few years, the struggling neighborhood has slipped further into economic decline, forcing more store closings and the loss of jobs. The surrounding neighborhood supports several drug houses and a few open air drug markets. The housing market is mostly rental property and a dwindling number of owner-occupied homes. Several hotels/motels in the area now cater to the weekly renter or groups of homeless citizens who share the same room. The Blossom Hotel at the intersection of Scott Avenue and Sampson Street advertises room rates by the hour.

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

“Several times a month employees’ cars are broken into while parked on the back lot. The crime always seems to happen sometime in the early morning hours. Usually cell phones, loose change, music CDs, and portable CD players are taken. If you ask me, it’s mostly because of all the prostitutes in this area.

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

"If they’re walking, I’ll take them into Lucky’s Bar, in the bathroom. Some get nervous about that, so those I’ll take to a nearby vacant building.” Prostitutes will pay bars and bars will also have more business from prostitute.s

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

"The lower blocks of Scott Avenue now have a reputation for drugs and sex."

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

Always dangerous areas have prostitutes

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

Busy with other activities but actual clients and prostitutes are isolated.

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

Drug dealing “Right now, I am working several cases in the lower blocks of Scott Avenue and the adjacent neighborhood. Most of the arrests I make are of street-level dealers through sting operations. In just the past few months, my unit has made several arrests of drug buyers in reverse stings." The most interesting arrests are of the men arrested for buying drugs that they intend to exchange with prostitutes for sex. These men are often arrested with the prostitute still in the car. When you see a known prostitute riding as a passenger in a drug area, you know it’s going to be easy to make an arrest.”

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

I would predict it would happen in any place with a nightlife or around any bars or not nice areas.

AdrianEidge: Sp cq pimps

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

They mainly work for pimps except for girls that work for themselves as escorts “I don’t work the street much anymore. I ’m in the escort business now."

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