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San Diego Mayor Blames 'Absolute Jerks' for Tarnishing PD

Jerry Sanders, San Diego's mayor and former police chief, is backing current Chief William Lansdowne's efforts to address a spate of officer misconduct cases.

May 12, 2011

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Suspected Prostitute Left Babies In Car While Working

The 25-year-old Stockton woman was seen loitering on 16th Avenue near a dirty Oldsmobile. She was arrested in an undercover sting.

April 20, 2011

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Obama Friend Arrested In Hawaii Sex Sting

Robert "Bobby" Titcomb, 49, was one of four men arrested in an undercover sting operation late Monday and later released on $500 bail, confirms the Honolulu Police Department.

April 9, 2011

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Three More Bodies Found at Long Island Beach

So far, eight women have been found in Suffolk County between Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach since last summer. At least four were Craigslist hookers. Police are still searching for escort Shannan Gilbert, who has been missing since December.

April 4, 2011

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California Courts: When Is Someone a Pimp?

Jomo Zambia's lawyers argued that only someone who recruits innocent victims rather than working prostitutes or someone posing as a prostitute can be guilty of pandering.

March 9, 2011

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Bankrupt Calif. City Becomes Prostitution Magnet

City officials have had to trim the police force from 155 to 90, leaving the remaining officers with little time to haul in hookers and johns. As a result, streetwalkers and pimps have come from as far away as Oregon and Mexico to work Vallejo.

March 1, 2011

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Arizona LE, Nonprofits Bring Awareness To Human Slavery

As differentiated from human smuggling, these crimes involve forcing people against their will to work for others' profit. It could be a prostitute walking the streets for a pimp. It could be a cowering immigrant toiling in a sweatshop in a state of indentured servitude.

February 20, 2011

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Arlington PD Made 59 Super Bowl Prostitution Arrests

Arlington undercover officers called escort services' phone numbers listed in local publications and scoured the Web for sex-trade advertisements to set up meetings with suspects to make the arrests from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6.

February 14, 2011

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California Sheriff Can Fire Deputy Who Married Prostitute

A district appellate court sided with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who fired Deputy Emir Bautista in 2004, after his relationship with Shawn Crook became known to the department.

December 6, 2010

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Feds Rescue Dozens of Teen Prostitutes Nationwide, Arrest Pimps

The FBI said federal agents and local and state police rounded up more than 880 adults on charges related to the sexual exploitation of minors, human trafficking and prostitution activities.

November 8, 2010

Careers

LAPD Hollywood's Vice Unit

The movie industry has helped make Hollywood a much more seductive idea than physical destination and, more recently, has exposed the underbelly as well. Hollywood's streets often become "tracks" for street prostitutes, and boisterous nightclubs shun operating rules.

June 10, 2010

Special Units

Virginia MS-13 Member Gets 20-Year Sentence for Pimp's Slaying

Portillo and Arguera fatally shot Luna three times. Portillo fired two of the three fatal shots—one to Luna's chest and a second contact wound to Luna's head. A third shot entered the left side of Luna's back and exited his chest.

June 7, 2010