Just one more awful case of liberal utopian ideals creating dystopian realities.

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Over the years, the Blade had become much busier than when Ana started: more girls, more customers, more traffickers idling in their Hellcats and Porsches on the side streets, watching to make sure their girls didn't hide any money and didn't snitch. Ana had seen the Blade expand from three main intersections of Figueroa to more than three miles.

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[Policing] grew even more challenging when California repealed the law allowing the police to arrest women who loitered with the intent to engage in prostitution. The repeal, known as SB 357, was intended to prevent profiling of Black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed. But when it was implemented in January 2023, the effect was that uniformed officers could no longer apprehend groups of girls in lingerie on Figueroa, hoping to recover minors among them.

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Soon every intersection from Gage to Imperial had girls waving and waiting to be rented out, some of them imported by traffickers from Oregon or Texas or Alabama. By the end of 2023, the city attorney had taken to calling Figueroa the Kiddie Stroll because so many of the girls weren't even 13.

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I broke apart the link below because of racy photo on landing page. Don't open at work...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/

sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html

And the guy who authored this bill is likely going to replace Pelosi.

Rapier108 said:

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And the guy who authored this bill is likely going to replace Pelosi.

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Yep. That guy is a demon.

Logos Stick said:

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Rapier108 said:

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And the guy who authored this bill is likely going to replace Pelosi.

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Yep. That guy is a demon.

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What did demons ever do to deserve that level of insult?

I doubt this was an unintended consequence.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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I doubt this was an unintended consequence.

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Look at the bill's author's picture. It was the intended consequence.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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I doubt this was an unintended consequence.

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Fair enough. It's a clear pattern.

How Weimar of them

Weiner?

They need an explosion of father's vigilantism.

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They need an explosion of father's vigilantism.

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The father's likely sold them into this life.

It amazes me how we can know where the crime is happening. Know how terrible the crime is. Yet our society does nothing.

Sounds like a dumb law, but also sounds like lazy policing given that they could pick these girls up when they are in the act of committing a crime or rather about to.

Sex work is real work


- AOC

This is my shocked face.

Almost like....it was done on purpose.

texagbeliever said:

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titan said:

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They need an explosion of father's vigilantism.

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The father's likely sold them into this life.

It amazes me how we can know where the crime is happening. Know how terrible the crime is. Yet our society does nothing.

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Because we are very letter of the law driven. And that's not a virtue in the face of rampant evil. Border policy is similar issue.

You elect bad people, you get bad government. California is chocked full of them. It is truly sad what that state has become, and the price it exacts on the rest of the country.

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Sounds like a dumb law, but also sounds like lazy policing given that they could pick these girls up when they are in the act of committing a crime or rather about to.

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Option 1: Show up unannounced where there are clear congregations of girls and round them up and take them in to fingerprint and ID, saving those who are underage.

Option 2: Stake out in dangerous neighborhood in middle of night, following one girl who gets into a car to a motel without the driver noticing you and then waiting and busting in after X minutes?

Option 1 take minutes and gets dozens of minors off the street.
Option 2 take hours and might get one minor off the street.

It's not about laziness. Police don't have unlimited funding and personnel.

A law like this makes it practically impossible to fight child sex slavery. That's why it's exploded and they are bringing in minors from all over the country.

Leftists only care about the intent they can use to virtue signal to peers or supporters over. They don't give 2 F's about results and consequences because failure only gives them something else they can fantastically claim to be able to fix if given more power, if their narcissism can be fed more. If their sanctimonious impulses can be indulged.

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Sounds like a dumb law, but also sounds like lazy policing given that they could pick these girls up when they are in the act of committing a crime or rather about to.

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Wow. A new low. Goal tending for sex traffickers. Congrats dude. You win the daily new low.

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javajaws said:

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Sounds like a dumb law, but also sounds like lazy policing given that they could pick these girls up when they are in the act of committing a crime or rather about to.

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Wow. A new low. Goal tending for sex traffickers. Congrats dude. You win the daily new low.

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Oh come on. I did no such thing. This is a disgusting post on your part.

I read the full article a few days ago, and I was blown away that a law like that could be passed. It's California so I shouldn't be surprised but for them to say that its unreasonable to assume a woman standing on a street corner in lingerie, waving at every car that goes by is a prostitute is insane. It's a really sad situation and is disgusting that the state enables this to continue, especially with underage girls.

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Sounds like a dumb law, but also sounds like lazy policing given that they could pick these girls up when they are in the act of committing a crime or rather about to.

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Hard to do if they're picked up off the street and taken somewhere. Cops have to get a warrant to enter and search, and unless they see money changing hands their hands are basically tied. By the time they can get a warrant and actually do something, they're too late. These girls are smart enough not to admit to prostitution to a cop, too. Cops would have to do a sting operation for each girl on the street, and that's something they simply don't have the resources for.

Even if they do all that, liberal CA prosecutors aren't going to do anything. They'll be released straight to a pimp instead of being charged and held to get them off the street.

Once again, for progressives it's performative politics that are only about feels and looking like they're doing something. They don't care about reality or actual outcomes.

If there is ever widespread legal prostitution in this country, teen girls from third-world countries will be shipped here by the plane load.

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If there is ever widespread legal prostitution in this country, teen girls from third-world countries will be shipped here by the plane load.

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This happens today. Girls come in smuggled from Mexico. Smuggled in on boats. They work at massage parlors and cantinas.

Also girls are groomed today. By relatives, by "boyfriends" etc. It happens way more frequently then you likely realize.

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texagbeliever said:

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titan said:

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They need an explosion of father's vigilantism.

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The father's likely sold them into this life.

It amazes me how we can know where the crime is happening. Know how terrible the crime is. Yet our society does nothing.

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Because we are very letter of the law driven. And that's not a virtue in the face of rampant evil. Border policy is similar issue.

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No we really arent.
We are a selectively enforce letter of the law. Which means we arent letter of the law.