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Predatorâs Paradise | City Journal (city-journal.org)
What shifted? The answer, the anti-trafficking advocates told me, is Senate Bill 357. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in July, the measure decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. The bill did not officially take effect until January 1 of this year; but, from the moment it became law back in July, these women say, the on-the-ground reality changed. âThe minute the governor signed it, you started seeing an uptick on the streets,â Powell said. âAnd on social media, the pimps were saying: âYou better get out there and work because the streets are ours.ââ
Honestly prostitution should be a legal business with regulation and licensing to prevent pimping and all that.
Criminalizing stuff is not going to solve anything.
Thatâs what you got from reading an article about human exploitation?
You should run for office.
44 min. Whatâs the highlights and whatâs your take on it? So what if thereâs solar on some farmland?
This bill doesnât particularly seem like a good idea to me, but Iâll say that in the dozens of Soft White Underbelly interviews Iâve watched with prostitutes from Fig (many of them heartbreakingly young), none see the presence of police as a positive thing. A lot of them talk about being raped by the police, as a way to avoid arrest â although they get arrested plenty too, and dumped back on the street the next day, minus their money. The pimps â who donât get arrested â have little reason to care.
Itâs a horrific situation and no-one seems to know what to do about it, but spending more money (and passing legislation) going after the pimps and traffickers would surely do more good.
Plenty of European countries have solved this problem
Sure, and various other problems that the US finds intractable.
Seems insane to open a business in West OaklandâŚ
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Or have a car
Maybe this is all part of the great reset âown nothing and be happyâ master plan? Canât be happy if youâre worried about violent criminals robbing you, or if dead.
I think she probably opened her business in such a poor, violent neighborhood out of a certain sense of idealismâŚwanting to contribute to the areaâs revitalization (good luck with that oneâŚitâs been an urban hellhole since at least the 1960s). If she went into it aware of the risks, more power to her.
The area where she got robbed was actually nearby in downtown Oakland, and the reason she ended up in a coma (update: she subsequently died in the hospital) is because she chased after the thievesâ car after they robbed her. Just a really bad idea. I think some people who spend a lot of time in dangerous areas tend to lose sight of the risk when (often out of luck) nothing bad happens to them. Just a sad story all around.
Not even safe on Russian Hill these daysâŚ
âthese daysâ? Itâs been a long time, if ever, since that area has been high on the safety ranking - itâs what, a mile from the tenderloin? I stayed for months at the Stanford Court (back when it was a Renaissance) hotel on Nob hill (between russian hill and the tenderloin) back in the day, and there was always shady activity in the area .
Thereâs been noticeably more crime in pretty much all parts of the city over the last decade.
Saw a vid yesterday on the 10 most dangerous cities in the USA and Oakland was number 1 followed by Emeryville next door and alameda also next door was up there and SF was right behind them
A small target store on Broadway in Oakland has three armed guards while a lot of Safeways in SF do too
Things are not good
Baddies smash windows of cars at will with zero punishment
They steal cat converters at will too
And rob stores with no punishment
There is no law enforcement itâs like the Wild West
Oaklandâs always been sketchy, but I can still remember when Emeryville and especially Alameda used to be safeâŚ
Now about cat converter theft a few thieves have died
One had a Prius fall off the jack and kill him
The other startled the driver who was sleeping and she put her truck in gear not knowing someone was under her truck and ran the dude dead
She could have been blond
I canât say I feel sorry for those guys
They deserved it
Stolen converters sell for maybe 50 bucks but costs thousands to replace
You by chance have a garage for your TT.
Apts/condos/homes with car garages probably offer added value.