he city's tough local rules had only managed to move streetwalkers from one city to another where the local policing units were less strict ("Street Cleaning," 1991, p. A28).
More significantly, the underground prostitution industry had become interwoven with drugs crime and gangsterism, in some cities like Amsterdam, resulting in the formation of dangerous areas (Sissons, 1999, p. 27). According to the Rand researchers studying prostitution in Los Angeles, streetwalkers also tended to break the law by "rolling" clientsùdrugging them and stealing their money. Los Angeles' illegal drinking clubs had also served as pick-up places for prostitutes ("Street Cleaning," 1991, p. A29).
The efforts of law enforcement agencies to eradicate prostitution has only resulted in useless expenditure of resources that could have been used more effectively elsewhere. Some police officers spent money on alcohol and expensive hotel rooms in the name of creating sting operations to entrap strippers and prostitutes (Bovard, 1995, p. 18). Furthermore, studies have shown that in 1994, police in Boston, Cleveland, and Houston arrested twice as many people for prostitution as they did for homicides, rapes, robberies and assaults combined (Bovard, 1995, p. 19).
Imprisoning prostitutes and customers in already-overcrowded cells places unnecessary strain on th
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