California
Combating the inexorable flood of prostitutes in Los Angeles has frustrated almost everyone involved.
Dec. 8, 1985
The police were pretty sure he was a pimp.
Jan. 8, 1999
Tom Oliphant was parking his pickup truck in front of his Santa Ana mobile home around midnight several years ago when he said the passenger door opened and two women jumped in.
Sept. 2, 1988
Archives
Free Heidi Fleiss (and all other women incarcerated for prostitution-related offenses)!
Dec. 6, 1994
It was midnight, and the driver of the late-model blue Mercedes had spent a few minutes cruising Santa Monica Boulevard before pulling up near one of several young male prostitutes beckoning from the curbside.
May 20, 1990
Cruising down Sunset “is like a hunt,” one prostitution addict said.
June 30, 1995
Law enforcement and city officials from Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove agreed Thursday on an interim system of data-sharing--under the auspices of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department--to combat the longstanding problem of prostitution along Harbor Boulevard.
July 11, 1986
Prompted by continuing complaints of prostitution on Sepulveda Boulevard in Van Nuys, the Los Angeles Police Department said it will try to drive out prostitutes by citing them for minor infractions and by encouraging measures by local residents and business operators.
Aug. 2, 1990
In a small banquet room in the back of a Studio City restaurant, about 30 madams and call girls gathered to discuss a significant change in their business.
Opinion
The law does more harm than good. We need better ways to protect trafficked sex workers and to preserve the quality of life in neighborhoods plagued by prostitution.
Sept. 6, 2021