BabyLynn: Sp cq drugs

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

Many prostitutes that are drug users will accept drugs for payment. Some men will buy drugs only for the use of giving them to the prostitute as payment. Some men that are into drugs will even ask certain prostitutes for drugs or help to obtain some.

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

Street prostitution and street drug markets are often near each other since they often ride hand in hand. Usually when a man is high on drugs, he will then be more likely to throw money at a woman for sex.

3. Do street prostitutes exchange sex directly for drugs?

Prostitutes that are addicted to drugs will exchange sex acts for some drugs. Especially since in some cases, they were going to buy drugs with the money anyway.

BabyLynn: Sp cq pimps

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

The prostitutes often form agreements with business owners. Such as an Inn owner, he would have girls bring men there and the girls would have a safe place to frequent. Or even other businesses will turn a blind eye if they are given a cut of money.

BabyLynn: Sp cq current response

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

They will either arrest those involved or just threaten them with either exposure or jail time.

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

They usually let them off on a warning since many prosecutors don't see the time as serious as the time.

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

Depending on how severe their case is, they can be charged with either solicitating, pimping, or even human trafficking.

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

Many clients and prostitutes are let out a couple of days after being arrested for a number of different reasons. The most common one, being let out on a warning.

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

There is only an effect if it were a client with a family or someone they don't want to find out about their secret. Most prostitutes will return back to prostitution even after they are arrested.

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

Officers will threaten to call a client's family or boss or threaten prostitutes with jail time.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

The only effective response is the threat to call the client's family. They usually don't come back after that threat. Prostitutes will leave after that threat but then come back another day.

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

Prostitutes are offered government help and rehab if they are using drugs. Many prostitutes are not aware of this fact or don't want the help.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

Some prostitutes are using available sources since when many are arrested, they have a government help card on their person.

K.A.E.V.L.E.L.R.A.Y.N: Sp cq police community members

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

While some members of the department seem concerned about enforcing the law, the main consensus seems to be that it is not worth the resources and manpower it would take to enforce prostitution laws.

2. How concerned is the community?

The community shows much greater concern, expressing feelings of uneasiness and anxiety when they see prostitutes in their area.

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

Local community members express the most concern, specifically in regard to the increasing prevalence of drug crime and police reports in their neighborhood.

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

While community members are organized into groups of members who share the same goal of lowering crime, they express frustration over the police's ineffectiveness in enforcing prostitution laws.

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

Community members express willingness to tolerate prostitution if drug crime and the prevalence of strangers in their community were reduced significantly.

K.A.E.V.L.E.L.R.A.Y.N: Sp cq sexual transactions

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

Most prostitutes operate without a pimp, simply charging the client for services beforehand. Others meet clients through their pimp, with the pimp negotiating prices and services with the clients.

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

Clients normally solicit prostitutes from a vehicle, rather than on foot.

3. Where do the sexual transactions take place?

Most sexual transactions take place in the client's vehicle. Others may take place in a nearby motel or similar location.

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

While both prostitutes and clients reported concern over potentially getting an STD, there was limited information about precautions taken to prevent them.

K.A.E.V.L.E.L.R.A.Y.N: 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)?

While there are some cases of different forms of prostitution, the majority of cases seem to involve female prostitutes and male clients.

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

The prostitutes interviewed in this case were all young women, many of which had criminal histories involving substance abuse. A high commonality among the prostitutes interviewed was their feeling that they were in dangerous situations.

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

Crimes committed by the prostitutes against the clients seem to be rare. The prostitutes were more likely to report being victims of a crime than being perpetrators.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Street prostitutes are often victims of crime. Some prostitutes report being assaulted by clients, while others report being harassed by drug dealers to whom they owe money.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

Prostitutes appear to be committed to prostitution out of desperation, rather than due to a choice they're making. Many are doing it to pay for their drug addiction or to simply support themselves.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

Prostitutes are very committed to locations where they are being supported by local businesses and where they do not feel a sense of danger due to the police or drug dealers.

K.A.E.V.L.E.L.R.A.Y.N: Sp cq current response

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

The current policy on dealing with prostitution is to just relocate them to a safer spot or tell them to leave.

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

The current policy regarding prostitution offenses is usually a charge up to 3 years in jail.

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

Prostitutes are usually arrested, brought to the police station, and then released on the same day.

4. Do the prostitutes and clients complete those sentences?

Sentences for prostitution often end up uncompleted by those who are convicted.

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

Sentencing seems to have a minimal impact on subsequent involvement in prostitution, as there are many reports of prostitutes reoffending after being sentenced.

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

Police have used restraining orders against prostitutes to prevent them from loitering around businesses that are negatively affected by their presence. Police have also discouraged local business from supporting prostitutes in their area.

7. Are any of these responses especially effective?

These responses do not seem to have a strong effect on the prevalence of prostitution.

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

Rehabilitation for drug addiction and police protection from criminals are both available to assist prostitutes.

9. Are prostitutes using available services?

Prostitutes are rarely using available services to help them. Some even said that they were unaware that such services were available.

BabyLynn: Sp cq police community members

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

The police department is concerned about this problem, for the safety of both the prostitutes and clients. However, they state that there is not much that they can do to help this problem, especially since they lack the hands to do so.

2. How concerned is the community?

The community is more concerned if this affects them in some way. Some people just don't want to see prostitution while going about their normal day. It can be a disgusting sight to see or it can make some feel unsafe.

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

Business owners are concerned since this can affect their cliental and how much money they make. Residents are concerned about this problem since they have to clean the streets of condoms and needles before they trust their kids to even go outside since they can be harmed.

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

Community members can only do so much. Some business owners will kick you out of their establishment or tell you to get from in front of it if they do not like the business that you are giving. Some community members are also likely to call the cops.

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

Street prostitution that is less obvious is more tolerated. When the women dress up nice and aren't off their minds in drugs, they are a bit more tolerated then if not.

BabyLynn: 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)?

Street prostitution takes up many forms, but female prostitutions and male clients are more obvious and known.

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

There are different types of prostitutes in this area. Some are streetwalkers that are more likely to do drugs, accept drugs as payment, and charge less for "work". Others are some that will dress up nicely so that they are not easily recognized, talk to potential customers in businesses, and are harder to identify.

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

Some street prostitutes do rob their clients. This is a reason that some clients are wary over what prostitute they trust or how they profile certain women. If you are more drugged or rough looking, the men may stray away from you.

4. Are street prostitutes the victims of crime?

Street prostitutes are the victims of violent crimes. Some men will get drunk and act violent, or abusive towards these women. Sometimes, men will harass these women for the fun of it.

5. How committed are prostitutes to prostitution?

They are committed to prostitution that they will make agreements with local business owners to give them a place to do these sex acts for mutual gain, or to have certain business owners call them up when a client asks for a fun time.

6. How committed are they to a particular location?

Prostitutes frequent the particular location that they consider the safest or the busiest. Even if they get kicked out of a certain area, they are likely to travel back there another night.

BabyLynn: Sp cq clients johns

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

Only the names of the clients, the crime committed is known. There are other details such as some of the men being family men with a wife and kids.

2. How committed are clients to prostitution?

Some clients were not committed to prostitution but would pass it on the way to other places and join. Others would scout out the girls and environment in order to decide if it is safe enough to partake in the prostitution. How frequently this occurred is unknown.

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

A few of the businesses are concerned about their employees leaving during business hours to talk to the women in the streets. A few business owners are tired of the women bringing drugs around and ending up laid out around the business.

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

Some of the men were very particular about what girl or what area they used since they were all afraid of getting caught and their secrets getting out. They are so committed to that, that if something looks suspicious, they will leave but still come another day.

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