Califronia legalied prostitition. What could go wrong? Well, whatever one might expect. Increased visibility, more human trafficking, and wait for it. The cops can’t talk to the girls (unless they look underage), but they are all about ending the trafficking.
Who doesn’t oppose human trafficking (aside from the open-borders crowd, sex-work advocates, mostly Democrats)? California.
“Police can’t literally go and talk to them because they don’t have a right to talk to them because they are not doing anything wrong…Even if they are going out talking to someone in their car and sitting there when all they are wearing is less than a G-string,” National City Mayor Ron Morrison told CBS 8 news.
So they can’t stop solicitation, and it seems like there is limited ability to prevent indecent behavior (or sex in a nearby ally, for example) – don’t look kids! but the police say they are focused on the human trafficking that fuels sex work.
“Where we work in South Los Angeles, we’re not addressing sex workers where there is a voluntary exchange between two people,” Pinto said.
“What we are doing is addressing the human trafficking at the Figueroa corridor. There is a fear factor or coercion, and in the end, that pimp takes all of the money and she doesn’t get any money back. It’s been an ongoing problem for years, but the corridor has become an area where there’s been an uptick in trafficking victims.” ..
The problem has become so bad that the city, the LAPD, the LA City Attorney’s Office, local nonprofits, the Department of Children and Family Services and the US Attorney’s Office have banded together and started a new program in September called the “Figueroa Initiative” to help victims of human trafficking.
Prostitution is legal statewide, so it isn’t a problem limited to Los Angeles. But it is a problem. In August, we reported on the not-so-well-enough-known fact that sex work was legal in Rhode Island for nearly 30 years.
People who profit from prostitution are typically its boosters. They call it sex work, describe it as a right, and dress it up as a noble calling. That sounds great, but what legalized sex work actually looks like is slavery, trafficking, and sexual assault.
Democrats in California sell it as some empowering right. If a woman wants to sell her body, that’s her business. But it is always someone else’s business; the girls are just sex slaves to that revenue stream. Many end up addicted, mistreated, and, when used up, tossed in the trash. So, while it is noble to focus on human trafficking, legal sex work enables it and makes it harder on law enforcement and easier for traffickers.
Many of whom, by the way, move women and children across the porous southern border over which Democrats appear to care very little. Another policy that enables human trafficking. It makes you wonder who in Sacramento represents organized crime, cartels, MS13, and other street gangs who run the girls. Women aren’t making money or feeling empowered. They are victims, and the State of California made treating them that way legal.
HT | NewsWars
