This email comes from someone who lives in District 3, and described the experience of living in Polk Gulch for five years with as many as 250 prostitutes, some as young as 14 or 15, and one as young as 12 who set up shop for over six months in front of the post office dressed in little girl clothes.
“There are 4 13-year-olds every morning at Larkin and Clay, 2 at Pine and Larkin, and I have seen up to 10 of these same violent, armed pimps patrolling their old haunts. The noise level every night from 2 AM to 6 AM is unbelievable.”
This is unacceptable on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin.
I’ll start at the subject of Proposition K on the November 4th ballot, which would effectively decriminalize prostitution by barring the Police Department from prosecuting and investigating it. This measure would deny funds for the First Offender Prostitution Program commonly known as “John School” and also forbid the City from using state or federal funds that involve racial profiling to identify human trafficking victims.
I have taken a stand against Prop K. It does absolutely nothing to improve the quality of anyone’s life, including very the young girls who need to be protected and the people who live with the chaos in their neighborhood. We need a supervisor who will commit to protecting children, women and the neighborhoods that suffer under this unacceptable exploitation.
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Four years ago I attended a Town Hall meeting sponsored by Supervisor Peskin that was held at the school right at the same Larkin/Pine Street intersection that you mention. I was stunned when Mr. Peskin told the large crowd that he would not do anything to stop the spreading prostitution or drug peddling that was moving north towards California Street. For those of us who work or live in this part of the district we know that this problem has now spread as far up as Vallejo St. It will take time to reverse the damage that has been done to this area and this means scrapping the failed non-intervention policy of the Peskin era. "Absolutely unacceptable" is exactly the kind of direct and honest response I want from my supervisor. You have my vote!
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