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NYT:Lib repeal of CA prostitution lotiering law has led to massive underage rape
| Raymund Wong | 10/26/25 |
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Date: October 26th, 2025 9:35 AM Author: Raymund Wong
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html
Their jobs grew even more challenging when California repealed the law allowing the police to arrest women who loitered with the intent to engage in prostitution. The repeal, known as SB 357, was intended to prevent profiling of Black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed. But when it was implemented in January 2023, the effect was that uniformed officers could no longer apprehend groups of girls in lingerie on Figueroa, hoping to recover minors among them. Now officers needed to be willing to swear they had reason to suspect each girl was underage — but with fake eyelashes and wigs, it was nearly impossible to tell. One girl told vice officers that her trafficker had explained things succinctly: “We run Figueroa now,” he said. |