Arresting hobbyists for backpage stings forced people to patronize criminal enterprises pimps who run their own agency websites with known reviews and therefore arresting hobbyists promotes agency pimps.  Furthermore, providers have documented to Time that the clients who are coming are more violent.  Due to non-violent people not wanting to be put in jail, violent people would enjoy being in jail because they get free rent, plus free food, plus the chance to fight others without fear of prosecution.  Ideally, a violent criminal could just do a few drug deals, earn some money stash it somewhere, poon for a while, then get arrested and spend a few weeks in jail to save money on rent.  It would actually benefit violent people to be arrested due to getting free meals.