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Los Angeles City Council is considering sending "Dear John" letters to the registrants of cars seen in an area of San Fernando described as having a "thriving street prostitution problem". The plan would use automated license plate readers to identify vehicles that stopped in the area. Council member Nury Martinez claims "If you aren't soliciting, you have no reason to worry about finding one of these letters in your mailbox. But if you are, these letters will discourage you from returning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/01/the-age-of-pre-crime-has-arrived/
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The Age of ‘Pre-Crime’ has Arrived
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But what can you do with it?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @04:21AM
You would say that. Infectious disease and human trafficking are pretty compelling reasons for it to be illegal.
So you're also going to ban people from having multiple sex partners FOR FREE? I'm pretty sure plenty of people would be fine with reinstating those "old school" laws where sex outside marriage is illegal and often punishable by death... ;)
The human trafficking problem is often because it's not legal. So the hookers are forced to put up with crappier conditions. Whereas fast-food workers know that if work conditions get too crap they can report their boss without themselves getting charged for a crime too.
There are other issues with human trafficking - to bypass immigration/border controls - but in many of those cases the "victims" aren't actually victims - they want to be "trafficked". Nobody kidnapped them. In many cases yes they get cheated - people told them lies (promises of high salary etc) they paid a fee and find out the salary and work aren't as promised. But this happens to other workers as well, not just prostitutes. So the solution should cover those workers as well.