FBI/Phoenix PD Joint Sting #7 Completed

National Day of John's Arrests #7 was Jan 23-Feb 2, 2014 culminating with the Super Bowl.  Phoenix PD has participated in all 7 stings over the last few years.  

This 7th such "save the victims - fight sex trafficking" scam national scorecard that is widely being gloated about in the anti- sex victim industry lie media reports:

373 arrests
359 customers
31 prostitutes recovered (all prostitutes are called "victims' whether consenting adults or not.
14 sex trafficking alleged for pimps (may be someone just answering phone or helping a companion)
14 victim prostitutes were under aged.  

Each arrest faces minimum potential fines of $149,470
144 cars forfeited from johns

It appears this follows the companion busts with about 95% consenting adults and 5% alleged "trafficked" or victim/prostitutes under aged.  

Bragging by "Demand Abolition" to end all prostitution since consenting or not it is related to sex trafficking - great for fund raising.

"Buyers of sex are increasingly becoming the target of law enforcement efforts to end prostitution and sex trafficking. Police recognize that sex buyers perpetuate a violent, exploitative industry. If no one were buying sex, pimps would not be supplying bars, back alleys, and web sites with victims." (Dave notes you are a pimp if your the boyfriend of a companion who she shares a bank account with, or a paid assistant to answer phones).

"Under the leadership of Sheriff Dart, Cook County (IL) Sheriff’s Office has organized seven “National Day of Johns Arrests.” The most recent sweep coincided with the 2014 Super Bowl. The FBI and 26 other law enforcement agencies worked together in 15 different states, simultaneously conducting sting activities on the streets, in hotels, in brothels, via the internet, and elsewhere.

"Public awareness around the operation was made possible by a grant from Demand Abolition. This includes the replication of more than 4,000 “Johns School” DVDs for distribution to law enforcement agencies nationwide. Produced by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, these DVDs provide an overview of content found in first offender prostitution programs, or “john schools.” As in the classes, the DVD aims to deter men from purchasing sex by educating them about the harms and consequences of prostitution on themselves, on the people they purchase, and on the community."
http://www.demandabolition.org/national-day-of-johns-arrests/

The anti-sexwork war is well funded and gaining strength always assuming no companion/ escort can choose this occupation since they have been sexual abused, on drugs, controlled by pimps and no sexworker has any free will.   All companions are victims and need to be rescued (like the Project Rose scam in Phoenix).

The often quoted research that women enter sexwork at age 12 and mostly come from abused backgrounds has been totally discredited.  But the same bogus sham studies of Farley and her ilk are winning the war and increasing the police violence against consenting adult companions. Increasingly the target is customers as "Reduce Demand" campaigns are gaining power.

I have not yet seen the arrests stats for Phoenix.  We know how companions are treated with Project Rose - declare your "victim" or go to jail.  

Unlike the Reduce Harm decriminalization of all prostitution in Canada in the U.S. we encourage violence against sexworkers by police and their clients.  Police violence by terror or assets often with guns or swat teams attacking companions is far worse than the concerns about the rare dangerous client.

Go after those that are true exploitive relationships - not 95% in private consenting adult that are the victims of the "all prostitutes are victims" with the choice of Catholic Charities rehabilitation and victim indoctrination or jail.