Heidi Fleiss

I’ll rest easier tonight knowing Heidi Fleiss is off the streets (“Fleiss Convicted on 3 Pandering Charges,” Dec. 3).

Now I wonder if the same 20 or so officers who had to endure the danger of watching four women undress during their sting would care to take their time and resources to the streets where gangs are in control and innocent victims are being mugged, robbed and shot. Maybe they could set up a sting to catch a carjacker “in the act.” But probably not--it seems far too dangerous.

WOODY McBREAIRTY

Los Angeles

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I find it outrageous that Fleiss should be sent to jail on charges of pandering while the sleazy men in the entertainment industry (her purported customers) go free. It is they who create the commercial demand for women’s bodies; they are the ones who actively prostitute women.

The Fleiss case is yet another example of how our judicial system protects the interests of men to the detriment of women. Once again the judicial system sends the message that women are the sexual property of men and what men do to women is outside the purview of the law.

MARINA MOEVS

Los Angeles

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Re “Prosecution or Persecution?,” Commentary, Dec. 6:

Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom make an excellent, logical, rational, economic and just case for the legalization of prostitution.

It makes me wonder what would have happened if the police had made a deal with Fleiss to use her in a sting of her wealthy and powerful customers, in exchange for not prosecuting her. It just might have brought enough pressure on lawmakers to repeal the anti-prostitution laws.

RICHARD FOY

Redondo Beach