More often than not, prostitution is associated with downtown Toronto. However, the true reality is that prositution is everywhere, including residential areas.
Some homeowners have been surprised by the presence of prostitutes in their neighbourhood day after day, waiting to be picked up. For some people, this is very bothersome, considering the fact that their children are being exposed to this ‘dirtyness’ at such a young age.
What particularly bothers me is that a resident in the area has been trying to contact the local police about this issue, and nothing has been done about it. But my main question is whether or not the police are responsible for this issue?
It is to my knowledge that women are legally allowed to be a prostitute, but it is illegal to practice it on the streets. Therefore, the police are the ones who should be enforcing this law, especially when it is a practice that it is occurring in residential neighbourhoods!
Police officer, Laplme mentioned that it is very difficult to charge a person with prostitution because they have to be found actually committing the crime. I can understand why the prostitutes have to be found guilty, before getting arrested, but if this is going to be the rule, then prostitution on the streets will always exist. No one is going to follow a woman into a car, and watch them have sex – this is infringing on their rights and freedoms, so how is prostitution ever going to disappear? It will always be a problem in Canada partly because of the strict guidlelines in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
I strongly believe that the case of prostitution needs to be dealt with, but how? What sanctions can be imposed that are not directly interfering with individuals rights and freedoms? The government could implement a law that says that is is illegal to be a prostitute, but then how do you prove that someone is a prostitute? It’s immoral to make judgements based on someone’s appearance, so if the government does implement a law like this, they would be back at square one and it really wouldn’t solve anything.
Do you guys have any ideas what the government should to reduce the amount of prostitues on the streets?
SS
2 comments:
I think the reason the government doesn't do much about prostitution is the same as why they dont do much about drug dealings. Obviously the issues are discussed and sometimes dealt with but often they go unnoticed because the police are often involved in what happens as it puts more money into their pockets without the public knowing about it.
Prostitution is something that would be VERY difficult to remove from the streets because as you stated, its difficult to know exactly when and where it's happening. i think the bigger issue is educating those that take on such a profession since the only way to cut down on prostitution would be for the women involved to make wiser decisions and avoid that route altogether.
I thought that with the Bill C-49 it strengthened anti-soliciting laws. That basically arrests can be made on all communication for the purpose of prostitution. From this the police began to enforce the law but it was uneffective mainly because it would just move the prostitutes from area to area.
I feel like prostituting as it is, is not that harmful as it is one of those victimless crimes. A lot of it IS happening in the 'red light districts' where kids shouldn't be in anyways. Many disapprove them because of different lobby and interst groups. However, I feel like we should be more tolerant of prositution and more sensitive to the problems faced by them. I do believe in perhaps more laws to protect them in terms of STI's and such as well as where and how the business should be run.
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