Read about nationwide prostitution bust.

[jackjackjack]

Just a heads up if you haven't already heard or read about it. On Time.com dated yesterday, September 3, there was an article about a nationwide bust of 'pimps and johns'. The articles says most of the 1,000 arrests came from Backpage.

[Guy Fawkes]

More Than 1,000 Pimps and Johns Arrested in Nationwide Prostitution Sting

http://time.com/4022124/prostitution-nationwide-sting/

 

More than 70 pimps and traffickers also arrested in summer-long sex sting

 

A coalition of dozens of law enforcement agencies arrested more than 1,000 pimps and sex buyers in a summer-long series of prostitution stings.

 

The months-long annual sting, now known as the National Johns Suppression Initiative, was led by Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Il. A total of 39 law enforcement agencies across 18 states arrested 961 men trying to buy sex and 71 pimps or traffickers, more than in any of his previous stings.

 

About two-fifths of the arrests stemmed from online prostitution ads, and 98% of those ads were placed on Backpage.com, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. In the four years since the annual sting began, more than 4,000 sex buyers and traffickers have been arrested (it used to be called the National Day of Johns).

 

“This broad national movement should send a strong message to prospective johns that sex trafficking simply is not a victimless crime,” said Sheriff Dart in a statement. “These women and girls have been brutalized and exploited – and the most effective way to deter these heinous crimes is to target the demand.”

[adannyboy]

They arrested a bunch of johns hiring women. Sheriff Tom Dart from IL has a hard-on for back page. He's the one who got Visa/MC/Amex to stop processing payments to the site. He's also the one partially responsible for shutting down Craigslist's adult section.

[+ Gar1eth]

If the article hadn't just been about male-female, I would have wondered whether the Rentboy raid hadn't been the (initial) tip of the tallywacker :oops:for a nationwide bust.

 

Gman

[TruthBTold]

I guess because certain counties and cities are no longer prosecuting to the extent they were for drug busts they have shifted their resources to the second deadly sin, prostitution. If a sheriff or police chief will no longer have the opportunity to arrest for drug laws, they still want money for their departments.

[jackjackjack]

Even though I assumed it was a sting that involved both mf and mm, instead it seems it was just mf, it's still worth careful thought if hiring from Backpage.