San Francisco County Leader Proposes Dealing With Prostitution Problem By Legalizing It
A San Francisco A county leader supported legalizing prostitution in the city, as brazen soliciting spirals throughout the state. This was after a new law came into effect this year.
“What’s happening right now on Capp Street is it’s become more brazen, and bigger than we’ve ever seen it before,” Hillary Ronen, county Supervisor, told The Los Angeles Times last Thursday.
“Instead of repeating the same cycle that we’ve repeated for decades, it’s time to try something new.”
Ronen described the situation “out of control” in comments to the San Francisco Chronicle, and pushed for San Francisco to install barriers on Capp Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, after it became lined with prostitutes and pimps.
Hillary Ronen, Supervisor, speaks to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial Board on June 10, 2019. Ronen is advocating legalizing prostitution. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
She will likely announce a resolution this week calling on state legislators for legalization of prostitution.
“I don’t think this is going to happen tomorrow. This would be a major change in policy and direction,” Ronen shared his thoughts with The LA Times “I certainly won’t be the first person to try to urge the legalization of prostitution, and I won’t be the last.”
California has seen an increase in prostitution and human trafficking since a new law was passed last month. The law repealed the ban on loitering for prostitution intent. Scott Wiener, Democratic State Senator from California, sponsored the bill. He claimed it would protect transgender females who are disproportionately targeted in police investigations.
“[The previous law] allowed police officers to arrest a person, not based on what they did, but based solely on how a person looks,” Wiener told KGO-TV recently “So, an officer could arrest someone because they were wearing tight clothing, high heels and extra lipstick.”
California state Sen. Scott Wiener (Scott Wiener)
Since then, Republicans and police in the state have expressed concern that the new law has caused prostitution in some areas of the state such as Los Angeles and San Francisco to explode.
Los Angeles police Fox News Digital spoke with sources last week who said that the law is being enforced. “definitely” Handcuffing them to stop them from cracking down against prostitution. They claimed that they can only arrest someone if they admit to prostitution because of the reform.
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Police stated that the police were witness to the robberies and shootings of prostitution rings. Other crimes. According to them, many pimps are gang-affiliated. They will not hesitate to beat women and pursue other pimps trying to steal one of their workers. Some pimps even record their beatings. “think it’s funny,” Police said.
Two women were recently detained at the 77th Division headquarters police station in Los Angeles, California by a vice squad officer. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
The Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (one of the largest and most experienced direct service providers for survivors of sex- and labor trafficking) supported the bill. Fox News Digital was informed that it endorsed the repealing of the previous policy “because we know that reducing the criminalization of survivors will help prevent human trafficking.”
“Traffickers rely on our systems to criminalize victims so that they are unable to access safety due to their records and are vulnerable to continued exploitation,” Fox News spoke with Leigh LaChapelle (CAST’s associate director for survivor advocacy).
Ronen had a legislative assistant who argued that the federal and previous state laws could not be rewritten. “the problem around,” Legalization would solve the prostitution problems.
The San Francisco skyline, and the Golden Gate Bridge Oct. 28, 2021. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
“We have tried many laws. Federal laws. State laws,” Santiago Lerma, Ronen’s legislative aide, said according to KRON 4. “So, what we are hoping and trying to do is advocate for our state lawmakers to really address this issue and to legalize it.”
Tracy McCray, president of San Francisco Police Officers Association, replied to the plan and stated: “Yeah, sorry. Not down with this.” McCray cited the legalization and sale of marijuana in her argument against legalizing prostitutes.
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“Not only were people going to the store to get marijuana, they’re still selling it out on the street. It didn’t stop anything,” According to KRON 4, McCray said this.
“You still have people being shot over marijuana,” McCray also added. “You still have businesses being robbed of their marijuana. It didn’t stop it just because they said we’re going to make it legal, and everything is going to be good. That did not happen.”
Celestina Pearl is the outreach director at St. James Infirmary San Francisco. She supports a red-light district but believes that women who work on the streets should also be part of discussions about legalizing prostitution.
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“I think a town hall meeting with the interested parties, folks who would be affected by this, would be a really great first start,” Pearl said.
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