Several years ago, the U. Justice Department commissioned a survey of prostitution in eight major U. Some Miami findings:. Most enforcement efforts these days focus on services advertised online β most particularly on human trafficking.
In Broward County, which has a population of 1. Miami- Dade County police, who cover 1. All of Hillsborough β 1. They come from other counties. Last year, a federal judge in south Florida sentenced yearold Spanish immigrant Miguel A. He imported women from Spain, Colombia, Venezuela and Latin America to complement his Miami-area women, buying the women plane tickets and helping them with immigration paperwork and through Customs. Hernandez already had been sentenced to six years in prison in Spain for immigration fraud but skipped to the United States without serving his sentence.
He prostituted at least three minors. Justice Department released in Taking the business online is easier, pays better and is safer in terms of assaults and arrests for prostitutes than streetwalking. But in some neighborhoods, streetwalkers still become enough of a nuisance that police crack down.
You can use Google maps to find out where prostitution arrests occur in a given locale. Lake Worth, a city of 37, in Palm Beach County, saw arrests last year. Miami city police, covering , people, made fewer β Judd too sees some prostitutes as victims and says Polk works to get them social services and into a new life.
He says his prostitution round-ups discourage johns β who generally are charged with a misdemeanor β and get women and girls into custody where they can receive help and become wit- nesses against their pimps. In order to get to him, we have to get to her.
