The city of San Francisco is proposing forbidding their police and the district attorney from using resources to go after prostitutes. In essence, leaving prostitutes alone to break California state law. I'm not going to debate the morals of prostitution. Hell, it's not the world's oldest profession for no reason. Remember the Chicken Ranch in Nevada? So, it's not like we don't have legal prostitution anywhere. Hell, given my situation if prostitution were legal and the girls looked like they do there I probably would have given in to the temptation a long time ago.
However, as usual with San Francisco's actions what they perceive as 'good intentions' will have some negative consequences. In the article there is a link to a video story. You see a sex worker spewing out the usual "this is a job" and "harassment" lines. Keep watching and you'll see an interview with a former prostitute. What San Francisco in its infinite wisdom is going to leave prostitutes to the wolves. What does San Francisco plan to do about the women who are forced into prostitution? How about underage prostitutes? Since the police couldn't spend any resources to arrest them and maybe get them help, the prostitutes would be at the total mercy of their pimps. San Francisco is trying to give the pimps free reign to make more money off these girls and more free reign to beat and abuse these girls. Yet, I sense this doesn't concern the city government at all. They are too concerned with being "unconventional" that they don't care who gets hurt or victimized as a result.
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