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| Editorial: A better solution to prostitution than prosecution |
| By caller.com |
| Published: 12/12/2012 |
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CORPUS CHRISTI — Praise to Police Chief Floyd Simpson for implementing a policy recognizing that prostitutes often are the real victims of their so-called victimless crime. We do not dismiss the existence of shrewd, entrepreneurial sellers of their own bodies. We just don't think that's who's working the streets of Corpus Christi and neither does Simpson. More likely they're society's forgotten people, duped or forced into prostitution and kept there by threats or by a drug habit that may have started as part of the duping process. The traditional job of the police has been to enforce the law against these people, in effect pushing them back toward their victimizers. That's not to suggest that officers on the street didn't try to help and protect prostitutes, with police supervisors' blessing. But Simpson has chosen to make the outreach approach official. Police will work with health care officials and the judicial system to provide social services and offer a way out. Read More. |
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