{"id":1844742,"date":"2023-02-13T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844742"},"modified":"2023-02-13T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:51:18","slug":"san-francisco-county-leader-proposes-dealing-with-prostitution-problem-by-legalizing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-county-leader-proposes-dealing-with-prostitution-problem-by-legalizing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco County Leader Proposes Dealing With Prostitution Problem By Legalizing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-county-leader-proposes-dealing-with-prostitution-problem-by-legalizing-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;What\u2019s happening right now on Capp Street is it\u2019s become more brazen, and bigger than we\u2019ve ever seen it before,&#8221; Hillary Ronen, county Supervisor, told The Los Angeles Times last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of repeating the same cycle that we\u2019ve repeated for decades, it\u2019s time to try something new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ronen described the situation &#8220;out of control&#8221; in comments to the San Francisco Chronicle, and pushed for San Francisco to install barriers on Capp Street in the heart of San Francisco\u2019s Mission District, after it became lined with prostitutes and pimps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-cities-rattled-prostitution-human-trafficking-broad-daylight-cops-pin-blame-new-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CALIFORNIA CITIES RATTLED BY PROSTITUTION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AS COPS PIN BLAME ON NEW LAW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/ronen.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board on June 10, 2019. Ronen is pitching legalizing prostitution.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Hillary Ronen, Supervisor, speaks to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial Board on June 10, 2019. Ronen is advocating legalizing prostitution.<\/span> <span>(Gabrielle Lurie\/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She will likely announce a resolution this week calling on state legislators for legalization of prostitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think this is going to happen tomorrow. This would be a major change in policy and direction,&#8221; Ronen shared his thoughts with The LA Times &#8220;I certainly won\u2019t be the first person to try to urge the legalization of prostitution, and I won\u2019t be the last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/suspected-prostitution-ring-moves-neighborhood-catholic-school-pimp-blocking-driveway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SUSPECTED PROSTITUTION RING MOVES INTO CA NEIGHBORHOOD OUTSIDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL. PIMP IS BLOCKING DRIVEWAY&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The previous law] allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\"><u>police officers<\/u><\/a> to arrest a person, not based on what they did, but based solely on how a person looks,&#8221; Wiener told KGO-TV recently &#8220;So, an officer could arrest someone because they were wearing tight clothing, high heels and extra lipstick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/oaklandstory1.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"California state Sen. Scott Wiener\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>California state Sen. Scott Wiener<\/span> <span>(Scott Wiener)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Los Angeles police<\/u><\/a> Fox News Digital spoke with sources last week who said that the law is being enforced. &#8220;definitely&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nationwide-deregulate-prostitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>NATIONWIDE PUSHED TO LIBERALIZE STATUTIONS LAWS PROMPTS CONCERNS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the police were witness to the robberies and shootings of prostitution rings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other crimes<\/a>. 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. &#8220;think it\u2019s funny,&#8221; Police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/laprostitution2.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"A vice squad officer speaks to two women recently arrested in the 77th Division police headquarters in the southern area of Los Angeles, California.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Two women were recently detained at the 77th Division headquarters police station in Los Angeles, California by a vice squad officer.<\/span> <span>(Robert Nickelsberg\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Coalition to Abolish Slavery &#038; 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 &#8220;because we know that reducing the criminalization of survivors will help prevent human trafficking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Fox News spoke with Leigh LaChapelle (CAST&#8217;s associate director for survivor advocacy).<\/p>\n<p>Ronen had a legislative assistant who argued that the federal and previous state laws could not be rewritten. &#8220;the problem around,&#8221; Legalization would solve the prostitution problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/2021-10-28T223011Z_750838214_RC26JQ9QHFEQ_RTRMADP_3_USA-DAILYLIFE.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"The San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge on Oct. 28, 2021.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>The San Francisco skyline, and the Golden Gate Bridge Oct. 28, 2021.<\/span> <span>(Reuters\/Carlos Barria)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We have tried many laws. Federal laws. State laws,&#8221; Santiago Lerma, Ronen\u2019s legislative aide, said according to KRON 4. &#8220;So, what we are hoping and trying to do is advocate for our state lawmakers to really address this issue and to legalize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tracy McCray, president of San Francisco Police Officers Association, replied to the plan and stated: &#8220;Yeah, sorry. Not down with this.&#8221; McCray cited the legalization and sale of marijuana in her argument against legalizing prostitutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/police-florida-high-school-student-led-prostitution-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>POLICE: FLORIDA HIGH SCHOL STUDENTLED PROSTITUTIONRING<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only were people going to the store to get marijuana, they\u2019re still selling it out on the street. It didn\u2019t stop anything,&#8221; According to KRON 4, McCray said this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You still have people being shot over marijuana,&#8221; McCray also added. &#8220;You still have businesses being robbed of their marijuana. It didn\u2019t stop it just because they said we\u2019re going to make it legal, and everything is going to be good. That did not happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a town hall meeting with the interested parties, folks who would be affected by this, would be a really great first start,&#8221; Pearl said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;What\u2019s happening right now on Capp Street is it\u2019s become more brazen, and bigger than we\u2019ve ever seen it before,&#8221; Hillary Ronen, county Supervisor, told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3662,9702,4641,3939,18469,5392,18470,7285],"class_list":["post-1844742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-county","tag-dealing","tag-francisco","tag-leader","tag-legalizing","tag-proposes","tag-prostitution","tag-san"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}