I was just looking online at the Oregonian and I happen to see something about prostitution in south east Portland, Oregon. The paper said that it is the most active place for prostitution in Oregon and it is funny because I have gone down the main streets in south east Portland. I have only seen couple of prostitutes there. It makes me wonder what is going on in that area. They showed in red dots of where most of these prostitutes have been working and I was shocked to see that it was all over the place.
I think that finding this type of news online is helpful because not only does it mean it is on the internet were a bunch of people can view it also means it has been in the paper and mostly on the news. So I feel that they are doing a good job of letting people know what exactly is going on. Especially in that area if people feel that it is not safe anymore for themselves or their children to go there then they know not to go around that area. On the internet it was giving information about some of the girls that had caught a couple times on these certain streets. It also was describing what the cops were going to try and do to prevent this problem from happening. Although I feel that it is very hard to prevent this problem from happening, the cops said that they patrol that area at night looking for specific things to help them put this to an end. In the article it also said that they are trying to make the streets a safe place and not have these women being exposed on the streets. And at the end they asked if you have any information on anyone doing prostitution to call the police.
I think that this information was very helpful because in these days people are always online looking up stuff. Why not have these articles online so that people can beware of what is actually going down in their areas. We want people to feel that it is safe to going and do stuff I feel that giving this information out was a way that we could prevent this from happening.
A way I thought that we could have people prevent this prostitution from happening is make the laws more strict than what they have been. Make the consequences harsher than normal so when girl think about doing such things they will think twice about it. Or do what the article was actually talking about patrolling the areas where prostitution most frequent. Maybe these women would stop coming around. I just feel that getting the information out to people how they could would be positive because now these people are being exposed to everyone around them. Therefore making these streets safer for others around them, because I have been around south east Portland and it is a nice area.
March 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I agree that this information being available online is helpful. It helps let us know what is going on in our cities and what we can do about it. If the people involved with prostitution see these sites, and are aware that there whereabouts are out there, many might think twice about breaking the law.