On 01 Mar 2022, Molly Bolt <mollythebolt666@gmail.com> posted some
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> Newsom is a dumb bastard and anyone considering this fool for
> president of the USA should be tossed into a shredder.

Pimps in San Diego are controlling neighborhoods by leveraging the fear
of retaliation against locals in exchange for their silence on the
parade of nearly-naked women working the streets, a business owner in
the heart of a prostitution hotspot said.

"Prostitutes will walk inside of the properties to say, �What are you
looking at?,� �quit staring.� And they elaborate a little bit about
calling their pimps in order to hurt them or harm them or do something
to �take care of them,'" a San Diego business owner who spoke to Fox
News Digital under the condition of anonymity said of how prostitutes in
San Diego near the National City border speak to business owners and
employees.

"'If you're going to look at me, you got to pay me,'" the prostitutes
reportedly tell some business owners in an apparent act of intimidation.

The business owner said the threat of pimps carrying out physical
attacks, destroying property or stealing keeps locals quiet from going
to the police. Residents and businesses also don�t flag police when
tensions flare due to a law that took effect at the start of 2023, which
the business owner - and others across the state - says has tied the
hands of police from making arrests.

"They are controlling the neighborhood," he said of the pimps.

NEARLY NAKED PROSTITUTES PROWL STREETS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, BUT CALIFORNIA
LAW TIES POLICE HANDS: MAYOR

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 357, called the Safer
Streets for All Act, in July 2022, which repealed a previous law that
banned loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. The bill was
championed as one that would help protect transgender women from
reportedly being targeted by police. The law took effect on Jan. 1,
2023.

"The author brought forth this legislation because the crime of
loitering has disproportionately impacted Black and brown women and
members of the LGBTQ community," the governor said when signing the bill
into law.

"To be clear, this bill does not legalize prostitution. It simply
revokes provisions of the law that have led to disproportionate
harassment of women and transgender adults. While I agree with the
author's intent, and I am signing this legislation, we must be cautious
about its implementation. My administration will monitor crime and
prosecution trends for any possible unintended consequences and will act
to mitigate any such impacts."

FBI data show up to 8,000 victims a year are trafficked in San Diego
County, with those victimized ranging from women and underage girls, but
also young boys and LGBT youths. The San Diego County DA�s website notes
that as many as 50% of all youths trafficked in the U.S. are boys, with
the majority ranging from ages 11 to 13 years old if they are trafficked
for sex purposes.

"Youth who identify as LGBTQ+ are 7.4x more likely to experience acts of
sexual violence than their heterosexual and cisgender peers," the DA�s
office states on its website.

CALIFORNIA CITIES RATTLED BY PROSTITUTION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN BROAD
DAYLIGHT AS COPS PIN BLAME ON NEW LAW

That law has since come under fierce fire from locals, elected officials
and police who say it has caused prostitution to spiral, as pimps and
prostitutes feel emboldened to flagrantly walk the streets without fear
of police intervention.

CHURCH SERVICES DISTURBED AS RAMPANT SAN DIEGO PROSTITUTION HITS FEVER
PITCH

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, a Republican,
published an opinion piece late last month demanding the repeal of the
law, and underscoring how human trafficking has spiked alongside
prostitution.

"Girls as young as 13 are being openly sold for sex on San Diego County
streets. In fact, women of all ages are being blatantly trafficked for
sex, meaning they are forced to walk the streets while their traffickers
keep a watchful eye on their every move. One big reason is because
California recently repealed the crime of loitering for prostitution
with Senate Bill 357," Stephan wrote in a piece published by The San
Diego Union-Tribune. Stephan�s office told Fox News Digital on Tuesday
that she remains "firm in believing the legislation should be repealed."

CALIFORNIA PROSTITUTION LAW ALLOWS SEX ABUSE TO 'RUN RAMPANT' IN LOS
ANGELES STREETS, VICTIM ADVOCATES WARN

The DA told Fox News in an interview earlier this month that the
majority of sex trafficking victims on the streets of San Diego are
locals, with about 20% brought across the border.

"Cartels definitely have an influence on sex trafficking, but we're
finding that it's more our street gangs, which work for the cartels,"
Stephan told Fox News in an interview earlier this month.

The San Ysidro Port of Entry, which sits between San Diego and Tijuana,
is the busiest land border crossing in the Western hemisphere, according
to the General Services Administration. An estimated 70,000 vehicles
cross the border north each day, along with an additional 20,000
pedestrians, the government agency details.

SUSPECTED PROSTITUTION RING MOVES INTO CA NEIGHBORHOOD OUTSIDE CATHOLIC
SCHOOL: 'PIMP IS BLOCKING MY DRIVEWAY'

The San Diego business owner said the spike in prostitution and general
crime is an "absolute byproduct" of human trafficking coming over the
southern border, and pointed to reports showing the city is one of the
worst human trafficking hotspots in the U.S.

Stephan wrote in her op-ed that when Gov. Newsom signed the legislation
into law, "he did so with clear trepidation."

"He made the promise to monitor for unintended consequences and he
pledged to act if he saw them," she said, before calling on the governor
"to repeal SB 357 and to also increase penalties for sex buyers who are
lining the pockets of traffickers."

Newsom's office told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the governor's
administration is "closely monitoring the implementation" of the law and
is "committed to responding to any unintended consequences."

"Prostitution is illegal and sex trafficking is a serious and abhorrent
crime � as evidenced by ongoing law enforcement operations that occur
regularly across California, including the significant arrests and
felony charges in San Diego just last week. As the Governor stated when
he signed the Safer Streets For All Act, the Administration is closely
monitoring the implementation of this particular law, and is committed
to responding to any unintended consequences," the office said.

NATIONWIDE PUSH TO LIBERALIZE PROSTITUTION LAWS PROMPTS CONCERNS ABOUT
HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The San Diego business owner said one of his employees recently
witnessed attempted human trafficking first-hand, when the employee�s
18-year-old daughter walked out of her father�s apartment to grab
something from her car and was approached by a pimp.

The daughter "walked out to pick up something from her vehicle, was
approached by a pimp, threatened and [the dad] had to walk out there in
order to rescue her," the business owner said.

The business owner highlighted that prostitution has long been an issue
in San Diego, but was about "5%" or "10%" of what is now seen on a
regular basis in America�s Finest City. Prostitution began spiraling the
day Newsom signed the bill, even before it actually took effect last
year, according to the business owner and other sources Fox Digital
previously interviewed.

Before the law took effect, "officers had the leverage where they could
arrest somebody," the business owner said, which would cause pimps to
move the women to a different location for a week or two before
migrating back to the same spot.

AS CALIFORNIA POLICE FIGHT RAMPANT PROSTITUTION, JOHNS LINE UP LIKE
THEY'RE AT 'FAST-FOOD DRIVE-THROUGH'

"They weren't brazen and emboldened. They would hide behind the cars or
� they would just come out at night," the business owner said.

Now, even in torrential downpours like Southern California has seen in
the last week, prostitutes will remain stationed on the streets wearing
"fishnets and G-strings" waiting on johns for business.

Police in San Diego and other prostitution hotspots in the state have
carried out extensive sting operations against some of the sex rings,
including at a San Diego massage parlor this year that had long operated
a sex-for-pay enterprise. Last month, more than 500 suspected pimps,
johns, and sex traffickers were arrested during a statewide anti-human
trafficking operation, while dozens of adults and 11 children were
rescued from human trafficking.

"The Mayor has offered his full support to SDPD to enforce laws against
prostitution and sex trafficking," San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria's office
told Fox News Digital.

Stephan, in her op-ed, compared the easy access to sex to that of a
drive-thru line at a fast food restaurant.