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Oakland's child prostitution needs urgent response
San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Friday, April 1, 2011 | Chip Johnson

Posted on 04/03/2011 11:08:05 AM PDT by thecodont

When you hear about the actions of Oakland's modern-day pimps, it makes you wonder how prostitution was ever referred to as "the gentleman's game."

There is nothing gentlemanly about it, and it's definitely no game.

It's a dark and increasingly violent underworld that lures underage girls from the city's middle and high schools.

In an informal survey taken last fall by the East Bay Asian Youth Center, more than 500 residents, most of them Asian or Latino immigrants, cited prostitution - and the attempted recruitment of their daughters - as the area's No. 1 crime problem

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/31/BAN41IMJ49.DTL#ixzz1IU5PEADM

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: childprostitution; oaklandca
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NOT a "victimless crime."
1 posted on 04/03/2011 11:08:08 AM PDT by thecodont
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In an informal survey taken last fall by the East Bay Asian Youth Center, more than 500 residents, most of them Asian or Latino immigrants, cited prostitution - and the attempted recruitment of their daughters - as the area's No. 1 crime problem

Is that draconian California government being stingy with the crumbs they toss out to social programs again?

2 posted on 04/03/2011 11:12:54 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Not a problem. Barry is going to have a ‘beer’ sit-down with the local pimps. So everything is cool dawg!


3 posted on 04/03/2011 11:13:28 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: thecodont

round up the pimps and johns and execute them publicly and messily. Draw some inspiration from Vlad the Impaler.


4 posted on 04/03/2011 11:13:37 AM PDT by utherdoul
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Barry is going to have a ‘beer’ sit-down with the local pimps.

Sit-down or family reunion?

5 posted on 04/03/2011 11:15:07 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: thecodont

Golly, the Black population decides to glorify ‘Thug-life’, ‘Pimps’, and the ‘Ho’; and they are shocked .... shocked!! ... when life mimicks what they have set up as moral standard.

Sure, they could hold people like Bill Cosby as a role model; but that requires discipline, hard work and effort.

But, worshipping a Rap Star is far easier, and sets lower standards of behavior, education and effort.


6 posted on 04/03/2011 11:16:21 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: utherdoul

I understand your sentiment.

My solution would be to have the pimps disappear from the neighborhood quietly and discretely.


7 posted on 04/03/2011 11:23:55 AM PDT by burroak
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To: thecodont

The pimps who coerce them, the johns who patronize them and the libertarians who cheer them on... castrate them all.


8 posted on 04/03/2011 11:25:53 AM PDT by samtheman
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Can't.

That would be racial profiling....there is no worse crime.

9 posted on 04/03/2011 11:26:34 AM PDT by blam
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To: thecodont

It’s not like it’s rape-rape...


10 posted on 04/03/2011 11:32:32 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 801 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
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Sounds like it’s the Asian population, from the article, not black.


11 posted on 04/03/2011 11:33:50 AM PDT by Yaelle
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Shoot pimps on sight. Shoot child molesters on sight. Stop permitting them to run around in society like they have some right to peddle their perversions.

When I was a deputy, every city cop knew who the pimps and whores were. They’d occasionally make a “show arrest,” but nothing ever stuck. I never could get a straight answer from them as to why, but I have suspicions relating to corrupt judges and corrupt city officials.


12 posted on 04/03/2011 11:37:07 AM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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To: thecodont

Sad. Just sad. As a society, we must stand up for children. Not in a Hillary “It Takes a Village” way, but in a way that says we won’t stand for have our children pimped out.


13 posted on 04/03/2011 11:39:14 AM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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The state must be concerned about whether these little denizens are paying sufficient taxes on their earnings. They have probably also scoffed at joining the Actors guild.


14 posted on 04/03/2011 11:59:02 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: thecodont

Thank goodness that prostitution is a ‘victimless’ crime...or so I’m told that by the libertarians.

The thing that I can’t figure out is why someone with kiddie porn on their computer commits a felony and is a sex offender for the rest of his life, whereas adults involved in child prostitution (i.e., pimps and johns) seem to get off scott-free.


15 posted on 04/03/2011 12:02:21 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts))
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Hey, this is the city where a teacher was having 2nd graders doing oral on each other.


16 posted on 04/03/2011 12:27:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: thecodont

Open borders and diversity creating more third world crime. CA is a toilet and the rest of America is following Open border RINOs in TX like Perry, Kay Bailey, CT Bush klan, and Cornyn will lead TX down the same path as CA.


17 posted on 04/03/2011 12:45:06 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: GeronL

That was something they learned in kindergarten, right?


18 posted on 04/03/2011 12:50:30 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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I hope not but it is Kalipornia


19 posted on 04/03/2011 1:06:17 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Fortunately, the former mayor of Oakland and the former Attorney General of California is now the Governor of California...


20 posted on 04/03/2011 1:33:37 PM PDT by Toirdhealbheach Beucail (Am fear nach gheibh na h-airm 'n am na sith, cha bith iad aige 'nam a chogaidh)
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