Posted on 10/11/2022 4:05:54 AM PDT by grundle
Residents in the city of Oakland are outraged at prostitutes working their neighborhoods in broad daylight after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill decriminalizing loitering for prostitution.
People living in the East 15th Street neighborhood are demanding that city leaders do something about the problem.
A news report from KPIX-TV showed prostitutes brazenly standing in the street soliciting customers while Estefani Zarate, a life-long resident, pushed a stroller alongside her child.
"I think it's inappropriate but we can't really do much towards them," said Zarate.
She went on to say she was scared at what her young children witness in the neighborhood and says she often doesn't have answers to their questions.
"It shouldn't be introduced at the age of 4 years old that you're going down the street and you're seeing women dress like this," said Marlen Zarate, Estefani's sister.
Newsom signed legislation in July that deleted loitering for the purposes of prostitution as a crime. Proponents of the law said that the law was too subjective and police officers were targeting minority women, transgender people, and "non-gender-conforming people" disproportionately.
Oakland residents say that prostitution is a problem but so is the homeless crisis and gun violence. They're demanding answers from several mayoral candidates who are seeking to win a November election. While some are promising to clamp down on crime, others are offering alternative solutions.
"Violence intervention and violence interrupters and violence prevention is equally or, if not more, important than the response only," claimed councilwoman Sheng Thao, who is also running for mayor.
KPIX reporter Da Lin, who said he lived in that same neighborhood but moved over safety concerns, noted that the prostitutes weren't even concerned about appearing on the news as they recorded their segment.
"I moved out because I didn't want to raise a family in this environment, but a lot of neighbors tell me they can't afford to move, so their only hope is that city leaders will stop this problem," Lin reported.
Alameda County, where Oakland is located, is strongly liberal and voted 79.8% Democrat in the 2020 presidential election. Only 17.6% voted Republican.
Here's the local report about the neighborhood sex workers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98K7xODQybg
We have Ho, loitering in the White House.
Every home on the "lady's" chosen street or corner should have a Wrist Rocket. The streetwalkers AND their Johns should be targets.
Vote Democrat and vote hoochie mama.
Yes. Elections have consequences. But after decades of stupid voting, and a collapsing city/state, you think those fools would have realized it.
My body, my choice.
The key to "divide and rule" is, to actually rule.
She went on to say she was scared at what her young children witness in the neighborhood
Wait'll her children go to public school in Oakland and she discovers the perverted brainwashing going on.
Wait'll her children hit middle school and start parroting the marxist, demonic immorality propaganda they've been hearing.
Yeah, mom has a real education coming. All because of her stupid voting habits.
Don't hold your breath. The "problem" is part of their plan.
Champion for women everywhere, that pimp newsom. /s
Exactly. They can suck it. Errr...
Loitering? Easy target. Drive by paint balloons. Or Essence du Polecat.
Not really. They have pimps. This will get some Johns from the suburbs killed, too.
Governor Brylcream’s neighborhood would dump the hookers faster than Martha's Vineyard's elites shipped out illegals. Brylcream's doing this to make his crime rate look lower. All the hooker arrests are 'yesterday'...
Hey Oakland...suck it up buttercups! You voted for this man...you got him!
Yet they fully support trannies and homos in schools, DIE, etc. when you vote blue it sucks for you.
The hookers have more integrity than Newsom and his gang.
And their pimps would respond with actual lead.
He de-criminalized "loitering for prostitution". If he fully decriminalized prostitution, then the girls could operate out of brothels in areas zoned for that. You are never going to get rid of prostitution.
Our reps have chosen to ignore that they are supposed to be representing us.
We didn’t elect them to be our overlords.
Obama started the process, ruling against the will of the American people. Now governors and mayors are doing the same thing.
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