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Prostitutes' Photos, Case Details Put Online (Police Hope It Deters Crime...)
SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | October 30, 2007 | Mark Arner and Liz Neely

Posted on 10/30/2007 11:52:42 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

Prostitutes' photos, case details put online

Police hope it deters crime; clients' mug shots to come

By Mark Arner and Liz Neely

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS

October 30, 2007

EL CAJON – Mug shots of convicted prostitutes are appearing on the El Cajon Police Department's Web site. Police hope to discourage them from plying their trade in town using a 21st-century version of public flogging.

Pictures of 11 women, details of their crimes and areas where they are banned from loitering were posted as of yesterday. Police said they plan to add pictures of convicted “johns” – the clients – within weeks. They are urging viewers to report when the offenders violate probation.

“Our Web site is always in revision,” said El Cajon police Chief Cliff Diamond. “We have always viewed it as a good intervention tool to keep our community apprised of crime trends, wanted persons and missing persons.”

Publication of convicted criminals' mug shots is the latest of several unconventional tactics that El Cajon and other cities have tried in recent years to discourage prostitution.

Twelve years ago, the La Mesa City Council tried to stifle such activity by publishing photos of convicted “johns” in the media. In July, El Cajon and National City were among several cities statewide that were told to abandon laws allowing them to impound vehicles of motorists who tried to buy sex on the streets. That tactic ended when the state Supreme Court ruled that cities could no longer seize vehicles of people suspected of soliciting prostitution.

In El Cajon, the number of prostitution arrests has decreased since a peak of 100 in 2003, when a large number of stings were conducted. After five stings this year, 25 arrests have been made.

The goal of putting the faces of convicted prostitutes on the Web “is to move them and the crimes that come with them out of our city,” said El Cajon police Special Investigations Sgt. Mike Hook.

The tactic has drawn mixed reactions.

Marjorie Cohn, a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, said the Web site violates the women's right to privacy.

“It's an incredible invasion of the privacy of the women, with no real benefit to law enforcement,” Cohn said.

For some businesses along the corridors best known for prostitution activity in El Cajon, the high-tech approach is welcome.

“I think it's a good idea because we get a lot of them hanging around here,” said John Crisp, owner of Bath-Co Shower Door on Main Street east of Johnson Avenue. “It's not good for business.”

Larry Wilson, owner of Mustang Auto on El Cajon Boulevard near Wilson Avenue, said putting the pictures on the Internet will probably discourage prostitution in El Cajon. But he also wondered how to help those arrested.

“I think it's a good idea, but what do you do?” Wilson asked. “What can we do to help these people? These girls need to get involved in a church somehow, and they'll help them turn their lives around.” The Rev. Mary Moreno Richardson, an Episcopal priest in San Diego who has publicly opposed the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women, said the department's decision to publish pictures of female offenders appeared to be selectively punishing them without trying to solve the problem.

“This story is as old as time,” Richardson said. “I think they should offer solutions and services to these women, who have already completed their sentences and paid for these crimes.”

Councilman Gary Kendrick sees it as a deterrent.

“I think someone is less likely to engage in prostitution in El Cajon if they know their picture is going to end up on our Web site,” he said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: blotter; crime; hookers; privacy; prostitution; publicmorals; skanks; trickortreat
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To: doctor noe

Lots of copulation with total strangers isn’t exactly good for body or soul, either.


61 posted on 10/30/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: trumandogz

Must be specialist trade. The chubby chasers.


62 posted on 10/30/2007 1:35:49 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: DogByte6RER

The Saint Paul [Minnesota] police force has been putting prostitution arrests [female and male] on line for years. Most of the gals are pretty skanky.


63 posted on 10/30/2007 1:36:52 PM PDT by curmudgeonII
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To: ArrogantBustard

She could be a democrat politician.


64 posted on 10/30/2007 1:37:59 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: savedbygrace
That's Bill Clinton's long lost sister.

Sister or not, the Horndog from Hope would hit it:
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The visual similarity is scary.
65 posted on 10/30/2007 1:40:37 PM PDT by mkjessup
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To: savedbygrace

You’re right! The resemblence is spooky.


66 posted on 10/30/2007 1:45:34 PM PDT by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Must be specialist trade. The chubby chasers.

She is five two and weighs a full deuce!

67 posted on 10/30/2007 1:49:16 PM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: mkjessup

Even though I knew the similarity was frightening, it wasn’t until you posted the pix side by side that the enormity of it hit me.

Wow!


68 posted on 10/30/2007 1:51:35 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: ArrogantBustard

2 buck up-chuck.


69 posted on 10/30/2007 1:55:04 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: DogByte6RER

What’s really sad is that those women are somebody’s daughters. It’s the pictures of the johns who ought to be up on the web. Embarrass the hell out of the people doing the hiring and they’ll stop.


70 posted on 10/30/2007 2:03:05 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: metesky
Cohn, Marjory

This most ugly Jewess is associate professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, where she teaches international human rights law. She is also on the national executive committee of the National Lawyers Guild.

From the website “JEWISH S.H.I.T. LIST” (Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening)

71 posted on 10/30/2007 2:11:30 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: trumandogz

If you don’t like chubby chaser...How about chunky dunker.


72 posted on 10/30/2007 2:17:35 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

LOL :-)


73 posted on 10/30/2007 2:21:02 PM PDT by Bobalu (I guess I done see'd that varmint for the last time....)
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To: ArrogantBustard

The “19 year-old” is likely a victim of trafficking.


74 posted on 10/30/2007 2:21:49 PM PDT by liberte
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To: DogByte6RER

Some won’t look bad through beer goggles. Free advertising compliments of the PD?


75 posted on 10/30/2007 2:26:11 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: DogByte6RER

Clever. Will they also post their numbers?


76 posted on 10/30/2007 2:29:10 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
They put the johns pics on the net in Chicago. Someone pretty high in my corporation (couple levels from the top) got noticed by some other employees. The email of that discovery went around the company pretty fast. As did the employment of that individual. He was gone within a week.

I think the dude was a techy geek. Probably spent all his time in front of the computer, and probably couldn't put the effort towards a girlfriend. So he took the hooker route. Probably shoulda just found a chick with one of those @ss crack tattoos (ie: tramp stamp), took her to Olive Garden for a meal or two. Woulda been cheaper.

77 posted on 10/30/2007 2:36:05 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: ArrogantBustard

Looks like Ozzy!


78 posted on 10/30/2007 2:36:57 PM PDT by StayoutdaBushesWay
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To: DogByte6RER
“This story is as old as time,” Richardson said. “I think they should offer solutions and services to these women, who have already completed their sentences and paid for these crimes.”

Who is they? The police department?

79 posted on 10/30/2007 3:22:48 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Embarrass the hell out of the people doing the hiring and they’ll stop.

So the slight chance of getting one's picture posted is a greater disincentive than the risk of catching a lethal STD?

How so?

80 posted on 10/30/2007 3:27:28 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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