Privacy advocates are slamming the idea. The plan would use automated license plate readers to generate the letters, which would be aimed at shaming “Johns,” the Los Angeles DailyNews reported.
The city council voted Wednesday to ask the City Attorney’s office to examine sending so-called “John Letters,” the Daily News reported.
Council member Nury Martinez, who represents a San Fernando Valley district that has a thriving street prostitution problem, introduced the plan.
Martinez has said many of the prostitutes are children, or women being exploited.
In a statement issued by her office Wednesday, Martinez said, “If you aren’t soliciting, you have no reason to worry about finding one of these letters in your mailbox. But if you are, these letters will discourage you from returning. Soliciting for sex in our neighborhoods is not OK.”
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For the state to engage in this kind of behavior is offensive. I don't care if you are cheating on your wife/girlfriend/whatever with a prostitute, but for the state to intercede with these letters as the ultimate Mrs. Kravitz tattle-tale is beyond the pale. Truly they have zero business engaging in this kind of social engineering because that's what this is. They are literally taking their nanny state moniker to another universe of rancid creepiness.
I hope they are sued into oblivion if they even attempt this. This is one of the most uamerican, anti-liberty stances I've seen a regional government propose. Don't get me wrong, I am do not advocate prostitution or infidelity, but I also do know that these are personal matters that do not involve the state.
What if they make a mistake, then what? Who pays for this error? Who's lives are they going to ruin with this idiocy. Do letters go out to drug offenders? Government thinking they will get this right will end up fucking it up. Just watch.
Just say "It's for the children", or "Terrorism" and you can do almost anything, whether it's effective, or counter-productive or even deeply harmful, because "we have to do something."
I wish we could find a way to appreciate people who leave it alone as the rare heroes they would be. No matter how small the problem, it takes incredible courage to tell people that you will just not do something to stop what they are upset about, even if what they want is illegal, unfair, or incredibly stupid. People assume that if you have a position of responsibility then that responsibility is never to say "it's not that serious", "I have no right or authority to do that", or "your cure is worse than the disease."
Why not just make prostitution legal???
Wonder what Tomi Lahren thinks 🤔
When it comes to prostitution the Dutch have the right idea.
So they want to send Dear John letters based on license plate photos? Not based on actual participation in prostitution. Just on merely driving through the neighborhood.
Gee....what could possibly go wrong?
This is the same city council that felt overwhelming need to tell every citizen what kind of bag they can carry their groceries in, right after they drove home on the worse potholed roads in the country.
This shaming of customers and traffic will be great for business in the area. As we speak California is considering requiring a minimum wage of $15/hour too, which would be great if business couldn't just move to Nevada, or Mexico, or China. Here in California we love business, and jobs, and opportunity, but that stuff doesn't even come close to the joy we get from telling people what to do about everything in their lives. If we had to pick one thing to do with our lives, we like being nosy tyrants more than just about anything there is.
Orwell. I meant to say "oh well" just now but that other thing came out of me instead. I live in a dump. I got Freudian slips lying all over the place.
what could possibly go wrong?
City gets sued, and the indemnified city council members aren't punished.
Leland said...
what could possibly go wrong?
City gets sued, and the indemnified city council members aren't punished.
It's about time that city councils be held civilly or criminally liable for this idiocy. That would change their tunes a bunch on this nonsense.
iF WE'RE GONNA PUT REAL CRIMINALS IN JAIL - LETS START WITH hILLARY.
sorry bout caps. too lazy to correct.
sorry April, but Hillary demands about $200,000 to $400,000 a month to not commit crimes, and anything less is a deal breaker to her.
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