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Feminists are doing a bang up job on protecting women from human sex trafficking. First decriminalize it, next open up the borders to the sex traffickers. But, no mean Trump tweets to deal with during an afternoon of chardonnay and fine cheese so it's all good.
https://instapundit.com/
LOS ANGELES IS A Predator’s Paradise.
While the last few decades have seen an increase in human trafficking, women at all three of the anti-trafficking groups I spoke with across California agreed: nothing compares with the stunning rise in trafficking they’ve witnessed in recent months. Powell, formerly a sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Vice Division, knows the city’s streets intimately. Over the last six months, the number of prostitutes has doubled, she says. “On Figueroa, between 68th and 75th, in an hour, you might see about 30 girls out there. Now, you can see 60 to 65 girls in an hour.”
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. “The minute the governor signed it, you started seeing an uptick on the streets,” Powell said. “And on social media, the pimps were saying: ‘You better get out there and work because the streets are ours.’”
The pimps were right: police stopped making arrests for crimes that would no longer be charged. The anti-loitering statute had provided the grounds for officers to question women and children whom they suspected might be trapped in a prostitution ring. “As a police officer, you need probable cause to stop and investigate,” Powell explained. “So if I have a law that says you can’t loiter in this area, with pasties and a G-string, flagging down cars, I could stop you for that because you’re loitering. But if I just say I’m stopping you because you look kind of young, that’s a little weak. So, it takes away a tool.” Without the statute, police hands were suddenly tied. Henceforth, questioning the girls—and potentially provoking a violent confrontation with pimps—came to seem a Pyrrhic gamble, one that California’s police officers would now avoid.
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Less.TurdBomber said:
Well, at least 81 million of us are. Confirmed.WestlinnDuck said:
They must think we’re idiots.
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My real estate guys tell me that multiple offer sales are already coming back in the past few weeks and prices are ticking back up. Anecdotally, a house in my neighborhood was priced at what I'd consider Spring 2022 levels and it went pending in 3 days.RaceBannon said:
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House in my hood just closed 75k under original 2022 askBleachedAnusDawg said:
My real estate guys tell me that multiple offer sales are already coming back in the past few weeks and prices are ticking back up. Anecdotally, a house in my neighborhood was priced at what I'd consider Spring 2022 levels and it went pending in 3 days.RaceBannon said:
As always it depends on the segment of the market I reckon -
