NCJ Number
14739
Journal
Law and Order Volume: 22 Issue: 5 Dated: (MAY 1974) Pages: 8,10-11,13-15
Date Published
1974
Length
5 pages
Annotation
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND COOPERATION ELIMINATED THE 'CALL GIRL RACKET' IN A CITY OF 200,000.
Abstract
A NEWLY APPOINTED POLICE CHIEF RESOLVED TO END PROSTITUTION IN HIS CITY BY UTILIZING ALL THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE. SINCE MOST CALL GIRL RENDEZVOUS ARE SET UP BY BARTENDERS, CABDRIVERS AND BELLHOPS, THE CHIEF SENT FLYERS OUT TO THESE PEOPLE INSTRUCTING THEM THAT THEIR EMPLOYERS WOULD BE QUESTIONED IF THEY MADE APPOINTMENTS OR FAILED TO REPORT CONTACTS WITH PROSTITUTES. POLICE WOMEN WERE USED AS DECOYS AND EXAMPLES WERE MADE OF THE FIRST FEW UNCOOPERATIVE 'PIMPS'. THE CITY HALL ALSO COOPERATED BY SUSPENDING LICENCES OF BARS AND MOTELS THAT WOULD NOT TERMINATE THEIR ILLICIT ACTIVITIES. THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE COMMUNITY, THE CALL GIRL RACKET WAS VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED FROM THIS CITY.