SF News SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF Politics Supervisor Hillary Ronen Introduces Legislation To Legalize Sex Work As the sex worker controversy roils Capp Street, the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen has unveiled legislation hoping to legalize sex work, though it really just asks the state legislature to do it.
SF News Appeal To Decriminalize Sex Work In California Moves To Court The Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational, and Research Project filed a federal lawsuit back in 2015, challenging a 145-year-old California law that makes sex work illegal. On Thursday, attorney Louis Serkin, representing the
SF News To Shut Down Alleged FiDi Brothel, City Attorney Uses Red Light Abatement Law For 'First Time In Recent History' California's Red Light Abatement Law, a classic early 1900s vice law, has been used as recently as 2015 to shut down illegal gambling dens, but it's been a long time since the City
SF News Sex Workers Bring Petition To Governor Brown To Decriminalize Prostitution Erotic Service Providers Union delivers petition to gov with 24K signatures in support of decriminalizing prostitution. #prostitutenation pic.twitter.com/5xr1HFWzX6— Jazmine Ulloa (@jazmineulloa) November 15, 2016 Citing the fact that Governor Jerry
SF News East Bay Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Sex Trafficking After Luring Women To Fake Fitness/Modeling Agency One glance at the website for Mad Girls Fitness, still online at the time of this publication, and you might be able to tell that something is wrong. Amidst general nonsense and images
Arts & Entertainment Broncos' Rookie Sent Back To Denver After Questioning In Super Bowl Prostitution Sting Broncos safety Ryan Murphy was briefly handcuffed and detained by police in San Jose Tuesday after he was discovered in the passenger seat of a car driven by his brother with an alleged
SF News Does The Super Bowl Actually Bring With It Legions Of Prostitutes? A popular notion that's been sensationalized in the media each Super Bowl season over the last half decade is that every Game Week brings with it a huge influx of sex workers and
Arts & Entertainment All The White Hookers In 1885 Lived On Sacramento Street A fascinating map of Chinatown from 1885, commissioned by the S.F. Board of Supervisors amidst a flurry of moral concern over opium, gambling, and sex slavery, has just resurfaced via New Republic.
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF News Berkeley Students Whoring Themselves on Sugar Daddy Site to Pay Tuition An "increasing number" of Berkeley students are earning thousands of dollars a month through the website SeekingArrangement.com, which is a "dating" site for sugar daddies and their "sugar babies" seeking "mutually beneficial
SF News Sorry, Everybody: Carrying Three Or More Condoms Still Makes You a Prostitute Dudes and ladies, straight or gay — If you go out this weekend with three or more condoms in your pocket or purse, there's a chance the San Francisco Police could keep you locked
SF News San Francisco Has Been Using Condoms Incorrectly No, the city hasn't been unrolling them inside out or whatever, that would be embarrassing. Rather, the SFPD has been using condoms—and photos of condoms—to bust the working girls and guys
SF News Two Sex Workers Robbed On Capp Two ladies of the evening were minding their own business, trying to make a buck Saturday night at the corner of 20th and Capp, when they were robbed of their cellphones and purses.
SF News Hooker Put Up in Expensive Hotel By City to Testify Against Pimp Who Got Acquitted An admitted prostitute was put up in a San Francisco hotel, at taxpayers' expense to the tune of $2,000, while testifying against one Anthony Dorton, 23. Dorton, a laid off cable installer,
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Shot In The Face At East Oakland Motel A 19-year-old woman with a criminal record was found lying dead in a pool of blood at Oakland's Starlite Motel early this morning. According to Oakland PD, the victim was shot in the
SF News Small-Time Motel Pimp Sentenced to Nine Years Mahender "Mike" Singh was sentenced in federal court yesterday to nine years in federal prison for pimping out four teenage girls, two of whom were underage, via local motels and the internet. Singh
SF News Victim Snatched Off SOMA Street Now Safe From Kidnapping Pimp Last week near 10th and Mission in SOMA, a woman was kidnapped and tossed into a car while walking with a pal in broad daylight. The incident, which happened on February 28 at
SF News Oakland Pimp Couple Indicted In Teen Sex Trafficking Ring We reported in September on the teen prostitution ring that got busted at a South San Francisco Travelodge, and now the couple behind it all, Mahendar "Mike" Singh, 40, and his wife, Helen
SF News South S.F. Travelodge Becomes Center Of Small Teenage Prostitution Ring Fast on the heels of the news of this disturbing rape in a South S.F. home, we get word of a prostitution bust at a nearby motel involving three teenage girls, two
SF News San Jose Becoming Hooker Hot Spot Not only is Vallejo having a problem with prostitution lately, San Jose's up to their ears in hookers too! Police blame budget cuts and the related cuts in enforcement, and they say that
SF News Guardian Angels Attacked by Keys, Prostitutes Unharmed The Guardian Angels have landed on colorful 7th Street in SOMA. Their mission: prostitute wrangling. In their own words: "We ran into two women that [were] showing off there [sic] body parts so
