Business owners on an industrial strip in the northeast San Fernando Valley have been noticing more of them over the last year and a half - a parade of scantily-clad women offering up their services to men in cars.
A study by Cornell University in said that prostitution tends to go up during tough economic times as more people walk the streets looking for opportunities to make money. Some rings have even have turned to using abandoned foreclosures as houses of prostitution, the report said.
The number of prostitution-related arrests in the San Fernando Valley jumped 21 percent, from 28 in the first 66 days of to 34 in the same period this year, according to Officer David Houze, the assistant vice coordinator for the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Bureau. The 34 arrests this year came during a hour blitz March 7 on Lankershim in which police used undercover female officers posing as prostitutes.
Police conduct Johns stings routinely throughout the city, but this one was the first sustained and coordinated effort involving patrol and vice officers, said Capt. An operation to fight human trafficking in California resulted in the arrests of over people last week. The operation also went after people suspected of doing the trafficking, as well as customers of prostitution and human trafficking. Villanueva said there were arrests statewide for various crimes.
The trash left behind—used condoms, litter, needles—had a rotting effect on the neighborhood". Basically, with the signs in place, police can stop any car who makes a right turn onto a residential by-street at night, and this increases the chances of finding a client of the prostitution chains. The signs were put up six years ago by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, and the data backed the proposal up.
The number of arrests - on prostitution charges alone - spiked up to in alone, compared to just in and merely in Only last year did the number of arrests fell below the mark. It also just goes elsewhere—you get strict in one area, and it goes a couple miles south".
Too little and, just maybe, too late. Source: The Drive. A year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking following a three-month investigation into allegations that two massage businesses and a home in the San Gabriel Valley were operating as brothels, authorities said Thursday. On Tuesday, search warrants were served at the three locations and evidence consistent with commercial sex work was found at each location, Wegener said. Deputies arrested Mei Xing of San Gabriel as she left one of the locations and booked her at the East Los Angeles Station on suspicion of human trafficking, Wegener said.
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