You would think that the folks in charge of such things would recognize that the way you stop crime is by going after the actual criminals, rather than the tools they use. So, what happened after Craigslist implemented the change? Filed Under: attorney general , liability , prostitution , richard blumenthal Companies: craigslist.
Prostitution is one of those crimes that prosecutors and police are concerned about only when people are bitching about it. This is as true on the net as it is in a city.
If residents of a particular area complain about increased prostitution, the police will crack down pushing prostitution somewhere else. Problem solved. Law enforcement have chased prostitution for as long as it has existed, and guess what? It continues unabated. I realize that laws only have purpose when they are enforced, but prostitution is like mercury, it will always move where the pressure is least. What sites did the pros move to? My wife is out of town next week, so I wanted to use the free time to track increases in ad volume since the CL crackdown.
Lets legalize prostitution, charge tax. Government money increase, and make some people happyโฆ. And give the money to somebody who thinks like you and screw it all up. I am opposed to prostitution on moral grounds.
I also believe that criminalizing prostitution is idiotic. Law enforcement has not chased prostitution as long as it has existed, contrary to what one poster has said here. For most of recorded history, prostitution, even in Christian countries, has been an industry that law enforcement regulated, but did not ban. Nevada gets it right. Regulate it. Confine it to certain locations.
