Posted on 10/17/2023 8:27:06 AM PDT by george76
Californians are complaining about barely-clothed prostitutes roaming the streets in broad daylight, an issue heightened by Democratic Gov. Newsom signing Senate Bill 357, local officials say.
SB 357, which was authored by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener and backed by the ACLU, decriminalizes “loitering with intent to commit prostitution.” Critics say the law effectively decriminalizes prostitution in California.
National City Mayor Ron Morrison, an independent, recently criticized the law, telling Fox News that prostitutes are now “wearing less than what you would consider a scanty negligee” and “flaunting it in everybody’s face.”
Morrison also said the law, which was signed by Newsom last year, ties the hands of law enforcement, stating that the “moment” the bill was signed “everyone knew the rules were out the window.”
San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit, likewise, told The Daily Wire that the law has “made it extremely difficult” for police to get involved.
“In the past, you know, when we were able to contact women or those involved in sex trafficking, we could use the ‘loitering with intent’ after we watched them. Once they decriminalize that, we really don’t have an entryway into making that contact anymore,” he said during a phone interview.
“What we’re seeing now, is we have these open sex markets, 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year,” the police chief said.
Morrison claimed police also can’t apprehend these women for indecent exposure, since the way that law is written, if their genitals are covered, they can’t be arrested.
Video footage from the Bay Area and San Diego, in particular, show women walking the streets in g-strings, bras, and high heels, sometimes bending over in traffic, at all times of the day. Residents have routinely complained about the noise, the fighting, the drug use, and how it’s wildly inappropriate for such behavior to be around children. The residents who have spoken out, typically anonymously, also worry for the women selling themselves, fearing they could be sex trafficking victims.
Chief Nisleit said the law emboldens those trafficking women, “specifically younger women,” and makes it “much harder for us to rescue those victims. Just because you decriminalize something, doesn’t mean the impact on the victim, those who are being trafficked, or on the community goes away. In fact, sometimes, like this, it increases.”
Wiener said he drafted the legislation to protect “trans and black and brown women,” whom he claims are harassed by police for their identity.
“Why would we have a criminal law allowing a police officer to arrest you based exclusively on how you look, not on what you do?” Wiener said. “That’s wrong, we shouldn’t have that kind of law on the books. And police have plenty of laws that deal with trafficking and they should be doing more work on addressing trafficking and less time complaining.”
Anti-sex trafficking advocates and local leaders, including both Democrats and Republicans, are currently working to repeal SB357, but thus far those efforts have fallen short. The law continues to have strong support from Democrats in the state Senate. In March, Senate Democrats voted against a repeal effort 29 to 8.
Intended consequences.
They called on Satan to make their home Hell and he answered their prayer
Maybe the Democrat ‘plan’ to stop illegal immigration is to turn the US into a place no one wants to live.
prostitution is slavery....
There are prostitutes. There are Democrats. But then I repeat myself.
TTIWWOP...............
This article will probably double or triple the traffic in the neighborhood.
women gotta eat
These cities just need to take a different approach, direct them to the local DNC headquarters, demonrat politicians or the neighborhoods of prominent demonrats and tell them they won’t be bothered if they stay there.
Give it a year, they’ll wonder why STIs are spreading like wildfire. Probably hasten the growth of antibiotic-resistant strains.
I hope the Asians learn a lesson in politics from this. They are the majority community.
Sounds sexist /s
Sounds sexist /s
Who can object to a little manual labor?
Will Californians EVER wake up to this toxic brew?
* Democratic Gov. Newsom
* Democrat senate passing Senate Bill 357
* Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener
* WOKE with no judgements and anything goes
What exactly did people THINK would happen when they elected these sh!t show Democrats?
These are the same idiots are are SHOCKED that crime soared when they cut police budgets. The same idiots who are SHOCKED that BLM is a crooked racist and marxist organization out to get rich.
Hey dummies, the whole idea is normalize it for the children.
From the economic powerhouse of the world, the agricultural powerhouse of the world, the innovation capitol of the world, to a third world s hole with a generation of democrat rule.
We’ll be like Amsterdamned.
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