California stops arresting prostitutes. (Reagan, suspect, Levin, party)
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'human trafficking victims' is a fairly new thing?! LOL
15 yrs ago, no one even used the word 'human trafficking'!
Imo, that is just a modern reason to keep a very old (religious law) on the books and aggressively enforced. If you told citizens today that police will enforce laws on prostitution, (because its sinful and immoral)...NO ONE would tolerate that...but if you told them the laws were being enforced to save human trafficking victims...that is something most people would support.
Where do you think many of the illegal girls coming across our border are going? They don't have jobs lined up cleaning houses. They are being received by prostitution cartels. The same with American girls that run away from home and never found. They are locked in houses or hotel rooms, drugged, and raped for weeks at a time 24/7.
Where do you think many of the illegal girls coming across our border are going? They don't have jobs lined up cleaning houses. They are being received by prostitution cartels. The same with American girls that run away from home and never found. They are locked in houses or hotel rooms, drugged, and raped for weeks at a time 24/7.
Where was all the concern for 'human trafficking victims' years ago?
In decades past, no one even knew what human trafficking was, now its a common household term!
In the 70s and 80s, laws against prostitution was justified because the act was immoral, (NO concerns for human trafficking victims). Hmmm, I wonder why?
At least California is consistent in promoting crime and lawlessness.
Any cop will tell you that street prostitution becomes an anchor for crime in a community. I have no clue about legalized prostitution like Amsterdam, but when illegal prostitution is not prosecuted, other crimes soar where it is being practiced.
California promotes crime, whether it is prostitution, illegal drug use, shoplifting, or smash and grab theft. Many cities encourage crime with soft DAs who don't hold criminals accountable.
You get the government you deserve. Here is hoping the CA electorate wakes up someday. I am not holding my breath. Fortunately, I moved away from CA so I no longer have to live through the decay and collapse.
People are just tired of being controlled by religion.
Once upon a time it was not required to be "controlled" by religion. Instead, people were controlled by social family and community culture. You didn't want to disappoint your parents, your friends, and your community, so rather indulge in every vice, there was social pressure to behave yourself.
Self-destructive behavior used to be socially stigmatized, and that social pressure gave people an incentive not to engage in self-destructive behavior or harm to others. Sure, criminals, crazies, and baddies always existed, but the numbers were small and most people grew to be upstanding, well-adjusted adults.
American culture today has devolved into, "do your own thing and if it feels good do it". No stigma. Anything goes. Feel free to destroy yourself with the vice of your choice.
There is a term for this and it is called licentiousness. We used to understand that liberty was supreme but that it came with certain social responsibilities that people were obligated to uphold, and those choosing not to received a disincentive of some kind.
Society works best when culture and social pressure encourage moral behavior, and not laws or government rules.
Today, it is just anything goes, aided by mobility and anonymity. You can be as immoral and self-destructive as you want, and then just move to a new town where nobody knows you and do it all over again until you succeed in destroying yourself with anything from anxiety, depression, and drug addiction to total destruction like a drug overdose or suicide.
It is sad to have watched society go backwards my entire lifetime.
Since hookers, drug dealers, those commiting domestic violence and all other criminals are no longer getting arrested, what's left?! Go to California to commit your crimes freely and out in the open.
Soon with Dems in office, and with 2 and a half more years of chaos and destruction, there will be no law and order anywhere. I find it sad.
Yep, you get more of what you encourage and promote. It is up to the voters to fix, and they are not.
For once in my life I actually agree with something California is doing.
Ditto
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