Rather than prioritizing the arrest of individuals who are being prostituted, law enforcement entities must shift efforts toward combating demand for commercial sex by focusing on sex buyers.
Victims of sex trafficking and prostitution need care, not punishment.
Those who demand paid sex are the ones who must be stopped and law enforcement has the power to change this tide. Perceiving a risk of arrest and the consequences that it will entail can go a long ways toward deterring potential sex buyers and will alter and disrupt the “normal” activities of repeat sex buyers.
