About 18 months ago, residents on Capp Street in San Francisco were complaining loudly about prostitution in their neighborhood. As with everything else in San Francisco, this problem became complicated at least partly because progressive politics were involved.
On the one hand, residents were fed up with the hookers and their violent pimps making their neighborhood unlivable. On the other hand, everyone in SF has been trained to believe that there’s nothing wrong with “sex work.” So you literally had people on one hand watching underage girls on the street and women being beaten by pimps. And on the other hand, no one wanted to say it was wrong per se.
In fact, a San Francisco Supervisor named Hillary Ronen suggested the solution to the problem was legalizing prostitution. How this was supposed to reduce demand and violence against women and neighbors wasn’t clear.
The other problem was a law championed by State Sen. Scott Wiener which made it no longer a crime to loiter with the intent to engage in prostitution in the city. Sen. Wiener claimed this new law was needed to prevent the targeting of trans women. Police said it meant they had no options to arrest hookers except costly and time consuming undercover operations.
Despite all of this, the city did respond and set up concrete barriers aimed at preventing the customers for this illegal trade from cruising the streets. And it worked for a while. Things got much better for residents of Capp Street. But it turns out the pimps and hookers just moved a few blocks away to Shotwell Street and residents there are now fed up and are suing the city over the problem. […]
— Read More: hotair.com
