Within days, both motels temporarily closed while their owners agreed to stipulations of compliance needed to stop criminal activity. That compared to the dozens of sex workers that KOMO News witnessed during the same time of day just a few weeks earlier.
In the days since the closures, people living along Aurora said they had observed far fewer instances of prostitution, yet they expressed skepticism that the lack of sex-fueled criminal activity would last. We'll see," said neighbor Shannon Hays. They said officers have observed a drop in overall sex workers working along Aurora in the last week since the motel closures.
Yet the pessimism along Aurora Avenue remains, including from a group that does outreach to street-based sex workers.
In a statement to KOMO, members of the "Greenlight Project" insisted sex workers would actually be put at risk by the motel closures because more will now work in isolation, as opposed to in groups. Thu, 30 Jan GMT Story Infinite Scroll - News3 v1. Ski Reports. Weather App. Hurricane Tracker. Game Center. Now Fri Sat Prostitution drops on Aurora Avenue after Seattle motels' closure, but residents remain skeptical.
This photo shows a sex worker along Aurora Avenue in Seattle. RELATED: 2 Aurora Avenue motels cease operations amid police crackdown on illegal activities "I think [sex workers] will eventually be back unless the police enforce things.
