Silhcn15: Sp cq pimps

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

Most of the time many prostitutes work for a pimp, and a percentage of their money goes to him. Other times, they work for themselves. It's more popular to work for a pimp. The prostitute gets more attention and gets more ins by doing this, but it is also much more dangerous, and pimps are known for getting violent.

garcba_13: Sp cq environment

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

Street prostitution can take place within the area of 200-800 blocks of Scott Avenue. Zones with the highest activity rate are usually in local bars and motels, particularly places like Lucky's Bar, Lazy Lounge, the Blossom, and Secrete hotels.

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

The conditions of poor lighting, alcohol, and drugs make these areas attractive for street prostitution. Due to poor lighting, most prostitutes hide in the shadows between buildings to avoid contact with the public. Alcohol and drugs also attracts prostitutes as most of them are active in local bars and drug houses.

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

Most of these areas are similar in the way that they have poor lighting conditions, which makes it easier for prostitutes to hide from the public. However, some areas may be more dangerous than others as some of these prostitution hotspots may have local bars or drug houses.

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

The areas that are harmed by the presence of street prostitution are restaurants as they have had a loss of customers due to prostitutes residing in these areas.

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

The businesses that benefit from street prostitution are bars and motels as those are the places where most prostitutes engage with their clients.

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

The street prostitution market in the area is rather old and has increased in size over the past few months, as there are reports and comments from local community members and workers stated that it was never this bad.

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

These street prostitution areas used to have a reputation for being safe in the previous months but it has recently become dangerous for most clients with the increase in drug activity.

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

These areas are usually confined to an area with many small businesses like restaurants, bars, etc.

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

Other crimes that occur in the area are drug-related, sexual assault, and battery. These crimes are related to street prostitution as most prostitutes are victims of assault and often express how they were hooked on drugs when they were assaulted.

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

If street prostitution were forced out of a target area, they may relocate to another urban area like Central City, they may even move to upper Scott Avenue as it may have the same areas that can attract street prostitution.

Silhcn15: Sp cq environment

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

Yes, of course it does. Many streets can contain prostitution, and many locations can.

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

Poor-like conditions. Streets with many bars, things like that. Neighborhoods with more gang affiliation, etc. Prostitution thrives off of its environment and in an environment like this, they'll do their job. The attraction is most of the time any place, since these prostitutes want money, but excessively more attractive is places like above.

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

It depends on the geography on the location and what's around the location and what not. More bars=more prostitution. More dirty could even equal more prostitution.

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

Bars, restaurants, hotels, inns, anything that services people really.

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

Hotels, bars, etc. They get good money from all of this but at what cost.

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

It all changes. Usually present day, it's increased, unless police departments cracked down on the ins and outs on prostitution, then it could have decreased.

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

I would say dangerous. I don't believe anything safe comes from prostitution, only being lucky.

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

Usually busy with other activities, so clients/prostitutes can blend in and make it harder to get caught. Sometimes it's isolated, but usually it's busy.

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

Robbery, assault, theft. Many can be related because as prostitution increases over the years so do those other crimes in relation to prostitution.

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

They would probably go to a close by neighborhood, or maybe even a couple blocks down.

Silhcn15: Sp cq drugs

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

To an extreme extent. Clients are always look to sell for pleasure, and prostitutes are always looking to take for money. Some of the times police may catch clients in action and arrest them for a drug charge, but the prostitutes are on to their next client.

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

They definitely could be. Drug markets would be smart to be next to street prostitution as it would make them more money. They just have to be extremely careful not to get caught.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

Yes.

RickyHdz915: 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)?

There are multiple types of street prostitution but often thought of as female prostitutes with male John.

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

Ranges from under aged to adults, primarily female, all races, most with criminal history, some with substance abuse, and often reside in other areas away from work.

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

Yes, often in correlation with their pimps.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Yes they are often raped, assaulted and robbed.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

Most of them believe they dont need help and continue to work.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

Highly committed but learn that can keep multiple clientes with being in certain locations and being accessible through phone.

perlamarina: Sp cq clients johns

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

The clients are typically middle-aged men. They range by occupation from public officials, high profile business people, and even patrol officers.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

The pay hotel rooms to use to engage with prostitutes. Clients commit crimes to pay prostitutes, like buying drugs.

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

Local business owners around the prostitute areas. They are worried because it looks terrible on their business, and people go somewhere else away from prostitution. The drugs are a specific concern since the prostitutes seem to be strung out near the businesses.

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

They are committed by even breaking more laws, like buying drugs to exchange with prostitutes for sex.

RickyHdz915: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

One of the prostitutes admitted to only conducting oral sex for most of her Johns with few wanting other entertainment.

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

Both

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

In highly trafficked areas and were Johns can easily access prostitutes.

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

Per prostitutes they use condoms but was not spoken of by all prostitutes which might be an indicator that unprotected sexual activity is occuring.

RickyHdz915: Sp cq police community members

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

The police department seem to care but are unwilling to enforce the law appointed to them as the enforcement on prostitution goes unpunished for the prostitutes and they're released within 48 hrs.

2. How concerned is the community?

The community members have the most concerned are those who live in the area and own business that are negativity affected by the presence of prostitutes.

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

Home owners and business owners, well the increase in crime and the use of their resources to include the lack of enforcement.

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

They're highly active and often present evidence and concern of the activity.

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

As long as it doesn't interfere with their lively hood and doesn't bring unwanted criminal activity.

garcba_13: Sp cq clients johns

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

Most of the clients are usually single or aren't interested in a normal relationship. Some of them are also family men with a good job to maintain them.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

Most of them usually look for a safe area to find a prostitute and often avoid areas that involve drugs or crime. However, one of them did confirm that he usually picks up prostitutes from a local drug house after purchasing drugs from them. He would be willing to give a prostitute drugs in exchange for oral sex.

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

These clients are mainly concerned with the safety of engaging in business with a prostitute. Some argue that they want to make sure they can find a prostitute in a safe area and that they are also safe to have sex with.

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

Most of them usually make sure that they are in a safe area to solicit prostitutes on the street. They usually find prostitutes that aren't near bars, liquor stores, or drug houses.

RickyHdz915: Sp cq pimps

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

Yes, pimps profit from prostitutes through their work and selling of drugs. Others that profit from them are business owners that do not regulate what is occurring or those that know its happening but do not think theyre apart of the problem.

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