Prostitution Stings: Hotel Suites to Streets

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:29 PM EDT

Article Source: ABC News

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The Johns: From BMWs to Bicycles

The arrested johns were identified by their name, the act they allegedly agreed to and the price and brought back to the booking tent where they were searched and swabbed for DNA.

"One of the main purposes of this detail is to get DNA on file from a lot of these sexual predators," said Lt. Steve Czyzewski , of the Miami-Dade Police Department. "It's a real effective crime-fighting tool."

On this night, the johns represented a wide range of races, backgrounds and ages -- men wearing anything from dress shirts to aprons were picked up, driving anything from BMWs to bicycles.

Joseph, 32, offered a decoy $20 for oral sex, and as he waited in the booking line he became visibly upset. When asked whether his wife or girlfriend would find out, he replied "my fiance" and started to cry. His wedding was a couple of months away.

"When you get to jail, you just need to be cool," said the narcotics captain. "You can't be acting up like this, all right? Because they're going to eat you up and spit you out. You get a hold of yourself. You are lucky you didn't go out and get a disease and bring it back to your fiance."...

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The school bus full of johns pulled out of the booking center and headed to the jail, where the johns would remain until they were released at 5 a.m. before being arraigned later that morning.

Many of them would attend a John School -- a class for first-time offenders -- and the charges would be dropped. The female prostitutes who were arrested didn't have the same option, and some say this is a glaring double standard.

"He's a 48-year old white male with power and privilege. If he was a 13-year-old girl from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he'd be arrested. If he was, you know, a 40-year-old woman addicted to drugs [on] the south side of Chicago, he'd be arrested. I mean, in every city [you see] the disparity between how many women and girls are being arrested and how many men who are doing the buying and purchasing are being arrested. And I mean what are the consequences even if they are arrested? For a lot of guys it's a slap on the wrist, a fine."

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#1 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:36 PM EDT

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Do I feel prositituion is a sociological issue? I think the way we subscribe to it, our perspectives about sex are the root of the problem, society creates the niche.

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#2 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:50 AM EDT

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