Arlington Considers No-Prostitution Zone Ahead of Super Bowl – Houston Criminal Defense Lawyers
Just a few months before the nation focuses its attention on the Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas during the Super Bowl, the city’s police chief is trying to create a “prostitution exclusionary zone” that will keep sex workers out of the city’s main entertainment district. Millions of people are expected to converge on this area, during the game, and law-enforcement agencies are trying to make sure that prostitutes don’t sully the city’s image.
According to Arlington police chief Theron Bowman, areas frequented by prostitutes tend to become magnets for other kinds of crime, including burglaries, thefts and assaults. The police chief wants the creation of a zone in the entertainment district that would specifically keep out prostitutes. It’s a move that Houston sex crimes lawyers would find highly offensive, discriminatory and objectionable.
If a zone like this is actually created, it will be the first such zone in Texas. When the rules go into effect, Arlington prostitutes and their customers will be arrested if they are found inside the zone. In other words, the police want to make it expensive for prostitutes to ply their trade in this area.
So, exactly what is this prostitution-free zone that the Arlington police wants to create? According to their research, most prostitutes are concentrated north of Abrams Street between Centers and Collins Street. The zone will also include a stretch of Texas 360 between Lamar Boulevard and Avenue J. The Arlington police department has come up with these areas based on the number of prostitution offenses committed there over the past four years.
Under the proposed ordinance, anyone who has been convicted of a prostitution offense in the past couple of years will be informed that they are not allowed within the proposed exclusionary zone for at least one year. To make things clear, these people will also be provided a map that shows the boundaries of the exclusion zone, as well as a list of reasons that would allow them to visit the zone. For instance, a doctor’s visit would count as reason enough for a former prostitute to visit the zone. Persons, who violate these zone rules without a valid reason, would be charged with a class C misdemeanor.
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This what i have to say and think about this subject…..
I think if they are going to target “PROSTITUTES” Get the ones on drugs and if u have a “No-Prostitution Zone” dont u think it will just push the ladies to the surrounding areas? Also i have seen thing on the net saying that prostitution brings other crimes to the area. Where are these fact at say this? I dont know if most of you know this or not but over seas they have a log of sex workers and these ladies are providing there services to our troops…..
So i guess my question is why dont they have the same in the states for the ladies that choose to be sex workers?
PS. This is F-ing ridiculous leave them alone who do they hurt? Its there body if they want to sell it let it be because I really used to think this was a free country but i guess not!