San Antonio Escorts: City considers new way to deter prostitution
May 21, 2010A proposal by City Councilwoman Jennifer Ramos to create prostitution-free corridors in San Antonio seemed silly at first blush.
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After hearing about efforts in other cities to target certain areas as prostitution-free corridors, Ramos asked if something similar could be done here.
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The civil injunctions law enforcement officers use to combat gang activity wouldn’t work for legal reasons, he said. The law targets organized criminal activity involving three or more people. Generally speaking, he said, “prostitutes work alone.”
But McManus suggested a more viable alternative: asking judges to order those convicted of prostitution and related crimes to steer clear of the area where they’d been arrested as a “condition of release.” Over time, McManus said, that could have an impact on areas such as the Roosevelt and South Presa corridors, where 71 of the city’s 257 prostitution arrests this year have taken place.