Phoenix Prosecutor Solicitation for Prostitution Diversion Program Proposals for funding
The Phoenix war on consenting adult sexwork continues with no organized opposition which needs funding and fees for attorney's to fight the perhaps unconditional Phoenix prostitution law as related to private adult sexwork. While sugar babies/daddy's is booming especially at ASU as well as other colleges with no legal issues, more honest (in my view) sexwork is increasingly attacked with Phoenix and Scottsdale ground zero.
8/21/13 - The City of Phoenix Prosecutors Office, is soliciting proposals from qualified agencies to be awarded a contract for a Prostitution Solicitation Diversion Program. The program is to educate the offender as to the consequences of prostitution solicitation, to stop this behavior, and to provide educational services. Deadline to submit is 9/30/13.
City Attorney describes it as:
This program provides education to those charged with soliciting prostitution to help them understand the harmful effects that solicitation has on the women and men they solicit, as well as their families and communities, so that the demand for prostitution is eliminated.
Phoenix Copwatch said:
"Is this just another attempt by the city of phoenix to mix government and religion and allow the Catholic Church to force its views on Phoenix citizens. Or is it just another attempt for the city of Phoenix to shake down people convicted of victimless crimes for money. Men who are force to attend the program have to pay $750 for the brainwashing.
"The daylong course, which includes talks with those who have been hurt by prostitution and testing to determine the men's attitudes about buying sex, costs $750. But it wipes the arrest from the offender's record in the same way defensive driving courses work with traffic tickets"
The program started in 2005 and I believe Catholic Charities has been awarded the contact ever since.
Operation ROSE for sexworkers
It might be about time for the about every 6 months Project Rose Save the Internet Hookers Round up
The men's diversion is separately from the Operation Rose roundups of gals that many here have been caught up in over the last 3-years and taken to Bethany Bible Church instead of jail - if you agree to their 3-6 month indoctrination program on the evils of sexwork. For the customers its only 1 day!
Phoenix City Attorney Description - Prostitution Diversion: This comprehensive program for those charged with prostitution includes education, counseling through group sessions, and life skills training. The program provides the help, empowerment, and support needed to break away from the vicious cycle of prostitution and helps the participants to rebuild their lives along a new path.
Project Rose is a cooperative effort among ASU, the Phoenix Police Department and community organizations to give sex workers an alternative to being charged for prostitution, manifestation or escorting without a license.
At ASU the effort is led Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, an associate professor at the School of Social Work, specializes in work with oppressed populations, As I have reported extensively she relies on the widely discredited Ms Farley research that all sexworkers are abused women who have no capacity to decide for themselves regarding being sexworkers. So they have to be "saved" which funds the huge "victim" industry with $millions of funding.
As the statepress at ASU reported, "if the women had fewer than three prostitution arrests, were over the age of 18 and had no outstanding warrants, they were eligible to receive health services and sign up for the Catholic Charities Prostitution Diversion Program. Upon completion of the diversion program, no charges are filed or mentioned on their criminal records.
"The diversion program lasts three to six months and consists of a week-long, 36-hour class and a series of 14 support groups that must be attended." She brags out the programs success especially for "... Internet-level sex workers and exploited women."
"A key component of the program is that a survivor of prostitution guides the women through the project, showing them that it is possible to change their lives. 'I think that connection may have been the most valuable one,' Roe-Sepowitz said".
More fund raising quotes:
After graduating from the program and completing the support groups, Hartman said 89 percent of the women do not return to prostitution. Women who end up in the sex trafficking business are often forced to do so by pimps or boyfriends, have a history of sexual abuse, are estranged from their families, have felonies on their records and are addicted to drugs, she said. Hartman said these hurdles make it difficult for victims to break the cycle of prostitution.
The diversion program was “life changing,” said formerly prostituted woman Jeanne Allen. The program taught her life skills and showed her the damage she was doing to herself and the neighborhood she lived in.
All this is great for money raising and the about every six month roundup mostly from the Internet of mostly very "happy hookers" that are consenting adults without any pimp but may agree to the indoctrination program to avoid a prostitution record and the minimum 15 days in Tent City with Sheriff Joe a host.
Program gives prostitutes a chance for better lives
8/31/2013 - (Crime Time) - Triggered by a childhood filled with sexual assault and abuse by strangers and family members, Jhonda J says being paid for sex allowed her to be compensated when her husband traded her to his friends for favors.
“It was a way to get back at men and take their money,” Jones said. “I would come home not even knowing how I got home. I’d wake up in different places, under the bridge, in cars, in different motels, not knowing how I got there. "I did just about anything I could to make a hustle.”
By the time Jones enrolled in the Reaching Independence through Successful Empowerment (RISE) diversion program in Aug. 2011, she said the pain she carried inside made her physically ill. RISE provides housing, education, job training and employment to career prostitutes. Women who are accepted into the program are offered the opportunity to address the underlying causes of their drug, mental health and economic issues with long-term therapy and supervision seldom made available in jails, prisons or community treatment programs.
Dave notes - just a sample of articles all over the U.S. for the victim industry raising $millions in grants, police funding and donations for police to aggressively find (especially on the Internet) and arrest or offer diversion to every sexworker they can find even getting reportedly bonuses for how many they get and quotas (report from Scottsdale PD recent busts for escorting without a license)
People would certainly pay attention!