If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below: A little after 2: Higher-paying customers seem to have disappeared too. As the customer base has dwindled, many prostitutes have gotten cheaper, shrinking the pot for everyone. Tamika, a regal-looking year-old who identifies as transsexual, comes to a similar conclusion, making a distinction between herself and male transvestites like Linda, who she says hook not just for money or drugs, but for the sex itself.
Straight hookers fled for the internet. Gay men stopped cruising the neighborhood for dates too. In , a crime-plagued public housing complex a few blocks south, on Fitzwater, was demolished. Last July, the decomposing body of a man was found in one of the many Section 8 subsidized apartments near the Parker-Spruce hotelβa fetid druggie cesspool in its own right.
Rather than take the medicine, he says, addicts sell it to dealers, who in turn use it to concoct equally potent home brews. Several prostitutes cited the new lamps, which rest below the tree line, as an effective deterrent. From July to July , 62 prostitutes were arrested in the greater Gayborhood. Over the same period, from to , that number dipped to While some of the decline may be due to attrition and police deterrence, enforcement could also be stronger.
In the past few years, according to police records, the 6th District has stopped making arrests after midnight, right when the volume of activity appears to increase.
That said, police have the ability to round up prostitues at will, if they decide to: On March 13th, the sting squad arrested four in the span of an hour and twenty minutes. Forty volunteers showed up to the first training session on February 11th, where they were taught the basics: After one more session, groups of two are set to begin patrolling on April 4th, from 8 p.
