As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice

[DemocratSinceBirth]

GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Sept. 4 — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like East Garden City, Hicksville and Woodbury. Their ages ranged from 20 to 32.



Three had come all the way from the San Francisco Bay area, one from Miami. Two lived less than 60 miles away, in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J. and two even closer, in Brooklyn.

All eight were arrested on prostitution charges here, snared in a new sting operation by the Nassau County police that focuses on Craigslist.org, the ubiquitous Web site best known for its employment and for-sale advertisements but which law enforcement officials say is increasingly also used to trade sex for money.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/nyregion/05craigslist.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It is a real problem there.

There is a shitload of apparent prostitutes on CL and they are even in cities and areas where one would think that it would be quite hard to find any prostitutes.

A strange phenomenon indeed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. It Seems There Is A Positive Relationship Between Population And Prostitutes

As the population goes up the amount of available prostitutes goes up...

IMHO, if law enforcement is going to focus on discouraging prostitution it should discourage street prostitution that drives down property values, offends folks who would not rather see that activity, and brings men to an area that would not otherwise be there...

[Webster Green]

3. So...what's the problem?

:shrug:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I Was Wondering What Cities He's Referring To

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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. I Think We've Found The Next Bubble

All the Female Realtors & Mortgage Brokers will soon be doing this.

[NaturalHigh]

6. This is the biggest problem that our law enforcement officers have?

Couldn't resources used tracking down hookers be better spent?