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SF Hookers Proposition Entire City

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Propositioning people is what prostitutes do for a living, of course, but not usually on this scale. The hookers of the City by the Bay want the people of San Francisco to de facto legalize their trade by approving Proposition K on tomorrow's ballot. Jesse McKinley has this story in Saturday's NYT. Doug Berman has this post at SL&P. Now, a city or county (SF is both) ordinance can't repeal a state statute, so the measure "would forbid the city police from using any resources to investigate or prosecute people who engage in prostitution." Mayor Gavin Newsom and DA Kamala Harris, neither of whom is known for an excess of good sense, have enough to oppose this one. The framers of California's Constitution were aware of the problem of local authorities failing to enforce state law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).