WEBVTT - Rob Bonta says he's cracking down on prostitution in San Diego County 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.640 It's the John Phillips Show. Johnny is on vacation, he's 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.800 back on Monday. It's Randy Wang here and the phone 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.520 number to join us is eight hundred two two two 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.680 five two two two one eight hundred two two two 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.520 five two two two. You can email us at Johnny 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.440 Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.840 Like Show at gmail dot com and search for the 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.720 John Phillips Show wherever you get your podcasts. I just 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.040 put up the one o'clock Hour, which included our interview 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.080 with Fox eleven's Marlteis. 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Rob Bonta, the Attorney General from California 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.280 is quite a clicher. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.800 Every type of leadership is about meeting the moment and 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:12.840 rising to the occasion. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:14.680 And this is what's required. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.959 And so we're stepping up and getting it done. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.640 And Rob Bonta held a press conference in San Diego 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:25.520 with District Attorney Summer Stepan to announce a massive bust, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:32.240 a massive operation arresting over one hundred people for soliciting prostitution. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.560 That's right, it's time to crack down on it. Let's 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.440 hear what happened. Here's a report from CBS eight in 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.959 San Diego that. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:47.440 The message was clear that human beings are not for. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.800 Sale except on OnlyFans. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.840 That's the message behind a major six day sex trafficking 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.560 operation that resulted in over one hundred arrests here in 0:01:58.640 --> 0:01:59.760 San Diego County. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.920 My goodness, that's how many per day. I can't do 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:10.880 that kind of math. I went to LUSD. That's quite 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.679 a lot. And that's just in San Diego. This ran 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.880 multiple counties, although not Los Angeles County because we didn't 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.120 hear about any arrest. We didn't hear Rob Bont's task 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.120 force going to Larchmont or Figueroa. But they were in 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.400 I'm guessing Barrio Logan. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:26.120 Good evening. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.160 I'm Steffi Rosch, I'm Carlo Chickeeto. State and local law 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.880 enforcement announced the results of a coordinated multi agency sweep 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.680 today targeting pimps and their customers. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.760 Oh, Johnny's got to like that. They didn't say John's CBSA. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.640 It's Richard Allen is here with more on this targeted 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 enforcement and help being offered to the victims. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.560 Richard and Steffi and Carlo. This nearly week long operation, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.520 involving more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, led to 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.000 one hundred and twenty arrests statewide, the vast majority of 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.320 them right here in San Diego County. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:58.519 And why is that? 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.920 Including arrests known sex trafficking hotspots in the City of 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.080 San Diego, National City, Santi and San Marcos. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.480 Let's be clear, human trafficking is happening in our communities, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.720 behind closed doors and in plain sight. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.400 Well, yes, we're well aware of that it's happening. There 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.520 are news reports about it constantly. In fact, legislation from 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.880 Scott Wiener pretty much decriminalized the act of street walking. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.119 Speaking in San Diego today, California Attorney General Rob Bonta 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.920 also made it clear that law enforcement is focusing on 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.680 those driving the demand for sex trafficking, including the sex 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.200 buyers and the pimps. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.680 There you go, but is that going to stop it? 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:46.440 Probably not. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.960 Look, there are some things where I don't know how 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.360 you get rid of the demand for considering the tendencies 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.880 of stupid young men. Maybe when the robots take off 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.400 and you know, you can just legally buy your own 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.200 sex robot, maybe this will all tamp down. But there 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.680 is a need out there, and unfortunately that need is 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.440 going to be fulfilled unless we decide to either really 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.120 crack down on it or go the other way. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:23.279 Our strategy is straightforward, reduce demand, disrupt trafficking networks, and 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.560 protect survivors. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.600 Operations Stand on Demand, which took place from January nineteenth 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.599 through the twenty fourth, led to eighty seven people arrested 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.440 for loitering, twenty five for solicitation, and eight for pimping 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:36.159 and pandering. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.400 They got eight pimps off the streets. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.239 The rest of them the people who solicited, the people 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.520 who were loitering and waiting around for the street walkers. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:53.400 I gotta imagine they got a ticket. I'll learn them. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.480 I don't know if San Diego County does Dear John letters, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.480 but they're starting to do that up here in La. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.320 Of that one hundred and twenty total rests one hundred 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.279 and five, we're here in San Diego County. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:09.279 One hundred and five. People who thought that they. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.359 Were going to go out, you can say, men, I 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.640 don't think any women were up and down the streets 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.159 of Barrio Logan looking for a prostitute. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.400 Maybe maybe I'm wrong. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.480 Who thought that they were going to go out and 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.440 buy a human being like they're a hamburger or a 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:27.640 slice of pizza. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.839 I mean, it's it's a weird, weird, weird thing that 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.680 we can talk about how morally outrageous that this is, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:48.080 that this persists. But we facilitate this because sure, we 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:53.159 have these occasional operations where we crack down heavily on 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.160 the street walking where we know it's happening some neighborhoods. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:57.920 We don't. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.400 They say they're cracking down on the Figure Corridor. They're not. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.840 We heard about everything going on in Larchmont Village. They're not. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.119 We heard about all this stuff going on in Cap 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.400 Street in San Francisco. Where the answer was well build barrios, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.320 so cars can't get in there. Outside the churches and 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.840 the schools in Oakland, outside of the homeless encampments of 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.039 International Boulevard. We know about all that, and there's the 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.159 occasional bust. But you know what we also know of. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.400 And this is why I just don't believe this state 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.680 when they say they want to take this issue seriously. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.760 There are a lot of licensed businesses where these kinds 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.520 of transactions are taking place every single day, and we've 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.520 all seen them, We've all driven past them, and for 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:48.200 some reason, our cities, our counties, and our states just 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.760 like to have that business tax revenue. But there are 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.880 more massage parlors in Los Angeles than people in need 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:03.039 of a massage. I'm not talking about Burke Williams. I'm 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.719 not talking about Glen Ivy. I'm not talking about ten 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.159 thousand Waves, the spa that I hung out at in 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.040 Santa Fe last week. No, no, no, no no, I'm 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:20.440 talking about the Strip Mall massage parlor. You've seen them everywhere. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.760 They usually have a flashing sign that says open, because 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.920 you know, people really love to get lower back massages 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.280 at eleven o'clock at night. They've got iron bars on 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:37.000 the windows, and they usually have some nonsensical name. Johnny 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.440 loves to use the joke they're called Yum Yum number two, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.080 but you've heard them seven days massage, all day massage. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.520 They are usually occupied in a strip mall that might 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.720 also have, I don't know, a smoke shop, another hot 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.040 bed for illegal activity. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:53.720 I'm just sorry. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.160 Maybe i'm generalizing, but for the amount of smoke shops 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.160 that we have, which you would think, oh, are places 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.720 where people go to buy tobacco. No, it's where you 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:09.000 go to buy bongs, probably things that you're not supposed 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.640 to buy, like kratom and all kinds of legally dubious substances. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.880 What was that thing that was something? Was this thing 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:18.720 that used to be. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.720 Able to buy at headshops, at smoke shops, and it 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.800 wasn't pot, and it wasn't synthetic pot, although that was 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.840 allowed there too. But you also had this weird thing, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.160 this spice thing that you could buy that you could 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.040 only buy there, that you could smoke and it would 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.840 instantly give you a headache. Look, maybe it's generalizing, but 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.200 I think the vast majority of smoke shops are fronts 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.000 for either criminal organizations, or they're just straight up selling 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.360 things they're not supposed to, but we allow it because 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.880 we need that business tax revenue. In fact, there's a 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.079 strip mall near my home, which I'll tell you that 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.280 I don't live in that good of a neighborhood. There 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.800 are four units in this tiny little strip mall. One 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.239 of them is a bakery that went out of business, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.600 one of them has been vacant for over a year, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.880 one of them's a massage parlor, and one of them's 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.800 a smoke shop. It is nothing but a hotbed of 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:22.480 activity that is legally dubious and semi ethical because we 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.079 all know what goes on at all of those massage parlors. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.640 There's no legitimate healing going on there. There's a term 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.160 that I cannot use on the radio. I'd like to 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.280 because it's a funny name, but I cannot use it. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.760 But that is what the vast majority of those places are, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.280 and the cities know this because the cities collect business 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.240 taxes from them. So if you really wanted to take 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.560 this issue seriously and including a lot of those, you're 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.560 talking about a lot of people that were literally sent 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.360 here in shipping containers like the Wire in season two 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.800 where there is a lot of sex slavery going on. Look, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.960 if we wanted to take it seriously outside of these 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.360 occasional bus on Sexual Trafficking Awareness Month, we would be 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.480 shutting down those establishments left and right. But here's the thing. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.480 If you shut down all of the smoke shops and 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.120 you shut down all of the massage parlors, who's going 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.920 to rent out the spaces in these strip malls. Now, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.800 maybe it's time to get rid of the strip malls. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.480 And that's where you could start redeveloping and building housing 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.120 instead of tearing down single family homes. Another conversation for 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.680 another day. But it's just always weird to me how 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.280 it's so obvious what some of these businesses are and 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.280 yet we're profiting off of it. Now, you could also 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.360 go in the complete other way on this, because I'm 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.440 a man who is starting to travel the world. I 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:55.240 have been to other places where, well, this specific industry 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.400 that we're talking about has been legalized and regulated. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.640 You don't have to go too far to see this. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.160 You can go over to perumpt, Nevada, to the Chicken 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.120 ranch or the Buddy Ranch. We used to have that 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.600 guy Dennis Hoff on the radio station all the time, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.480 and I remember when he used to show up at 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.120 my original radio station, the FM Talk station in Los Angeles. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.679 He would drop off booty passes, which was like a 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.400 thousand dollars gift certificate that bought you, well, it bought 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.959 you an hour of you know what. But yeah, that industry, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.840 which is illegal and we're cracking down on here, is 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.520 legal and regulated pretty much everywhere outside of Las Vegas 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.360 and Nevada. You go south to Tijuana, they actually have 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.200 a regulated industry. You go to where I spent part 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.720 of my holidays at, I didn't go to these establishments, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:51.160 but I definitely walked past it. Amsterdam is famous for 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.200 a lot of things, including the red Light District, and 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.240 in the red Light District, it is a regulated prostitution 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.280 experience where there are everyone who's doing it is licensed, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.400 they are checked, they have to there are specific rules 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.199 they have to deal with. There are no pimps involved. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.120 These are independent contractors that are willfully making a living 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.440 doing this. And there are plenty of tourists that are like, hey, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.280 look at the lady in the window. I don't know 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.240 what the right answer is, but what I do know 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.800 is you can either fully crack down on this, which 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.559 includes getting a lot tougher on the purchases of sex 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:35.520 trafficking the Johns, Sorry, Johnny, we can actually make. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:36.480 That a felony right now. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.920 It's a felony if it's a minor, but if they're 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 an adult, it doesn't matter what the situation is. It's 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.520 a ticket and that doesn't seem to be doing it. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.000 So we could go that way, but we could also 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.360 go the other way. I don't know what the right 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.120 answer is. I will say you didn't see any street 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.200 walking in Amsterdam because there's a very specific place where 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.960 this thing is done and it is very very regulated. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.679 Victims can be any age, any gender, in any background. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.920 Sureff. Kelly Martinez also points out that cooperation among agencies 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.760 is critical to combating trafficking, which, according to the DA's office, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.800 is an eight hundred and ten million dollar in a 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.760 year industry in San Diego County alone. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.480 WHOA what is going on in San Diego County? And look, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.760 is there a deeper question as to why so many, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.400 I mean men of all ages participate in this? But 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.760 I would argue it's mostly young men, and we have 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.680 got a crisis with young men these days where and 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.360 this is a real statistic of all people. Gavin Newsome 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.240 talks about this a lot. It's like thirty percent of 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.440 men under thirty have never asked a woman out on 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:46.000 a date. There is a weird situation going on where 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.400 this is what they do to fulfill their needs. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.760 So you know, when the robots take over, everything will 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:53.200 be okay. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.320 Our border location, major highways, tourism, and the military presence 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.920 make regional collaboration essential. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.320 Wait, so is that why it's so high in San 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.800 Diego because it's where a lot of soldiers live. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.600 That's stereotyping, no buyers, no trafficking. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.160 Marissa Ugarte is executive director of the nonprofit Bilateral Safety 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.960 Corridor Coalition, which fights human trafficking on both sides of 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.600 the border. She says operations like this focusing on curbing 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.640 the demand for trafficking is crucial to sending a clear message. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.160 Is that you're going to be arrested, You're going to 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.880 have a fellon me, especially if you are caught with 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:33.480 a miner. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.040 Well only if you're caught with a miner, otherwise it's 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.720 a ticket. So again, if we want to take this 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:44.000 issue seriously, right now, the punishment for committing this actor. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.840 Maybe it doesn't have to be prison time. Maybe it 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.640 has to be public shaming. Maybe we need billboards, we 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.680 need good old fashioned scarlet letters. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:52.840 I don't know. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.520 So buyers beware, pimps beware. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.800 This is just something legitimately funny about the word pimp. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.280 But yeah, those are the worst of the worst. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.720 Adding that in her experience, trafficking victims can be as 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.440 young as twelve years old. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:15.440 You have recruitment in malls, you have them in schools, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.320 you have them in restaurants. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.160 Law enforcement also making it clear that more operations like 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.080 this most recent one are coming. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.520 This isn't the end, this is the beginning. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.360 And if you're planning to lurk in our communities, you 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.520 need to know we're going to be there. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.280 And that's all great, and I'm glad that they made 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.520 so many busts in the span of a week, mostly 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:42.920 in San Diego County, But again, if the only thing 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.880 that the John's are getting is a ticket, is that 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.040 really a deterrent? 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.600 And law enforcement was also able to use a new 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.360 state law that just went into effect January first to 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.240 carry out some of these arrests. Maybe three seventy nine, 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.000 which was sponsored by District Attorney Summer Stephan and Mayor 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.320 Todd Gloria, makes it a misdemeanor to loiter with the 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.920 intent to buy sex and also makes it a felony 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.600 to solicit sex from someone who is sixteen or seventeen 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:09.080 years old. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.880 So wait, it wasn't even a misdemeanor until this year. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.400 Let alone, it's a felony. Obviously it's a minor. But 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.520 you remember how much of a fight that was in Sacramento, Richard. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.040 One thing that kind of jumped out in that story 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.040 to me, California is a big state. One hundred and 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.880 twenty arrests, one hundred and five were in San Diego. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.040 Did they say why so many were arrests were made here? 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.880 We are sort of a nexus, sort of a hot 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.360 spot for this activity, unfortunately, I mean, and there's a 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.240 lot of factors, and Sheriff Martinez kind of pointed it 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.880 out with our location to the border, our military presence, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.400 our presidence of the major highway systems here were a 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.640 major tourist destination. So all of that together makes us 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.920 unfortunately a hotspot for human traffic. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.120 And it's so weird that they keep bringing up, well, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.800 we have all the military basis, so that's why. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.040 And the Attorney General mentioned the importance of helping out 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.160 the survivors of sex traffics, right, what kind of resources 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.000 are out there for victims? 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.720 Yeah, yeah, he made it very point. He said a 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.280 lot of times, too often the victims are treated as 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.159 criminals and not as victims, which they are. And there 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.040 are a lot of resources locally and nationally. There are 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.280 three family Justice centers here in San Diego County, there's 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.200 the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, who we interviewed. There's the 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.800 National Human Trafficking Hotline away of Lincoln. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.640 And look, there is definitely, you know, some horrific things 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.280 going on there. There is sex slavery, there are miners 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.760 being trafficked. But there are also people doing this of 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.159 their own accord. There are also people who are willingly 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.399 put walking up and down those streets that willingly go 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.000 into this. Maybe it's a financial reason, what have you. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:38.119 But they're not all fully victims. Now do they become 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.760 victimized and they get taken over by the pimp and 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.560 there is a you know, real you know, there are 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.320 some real problems going on there. Yes, but It's also 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.280 again the things that we decide are morally outrageous. It's 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:56.720 funny because if two people exchange money to perform an act, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.760 that's against the law. But you can pay two people 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.880 to perform that act on camera and that's legal. How 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.199 that industry was born in the San Fernando Valley. You 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.080 can have an OnlyFans account where people can subscribe to 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.840 you to do all kinds of things, including occasionally inviting 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:21.880 a subscriber to join you, and somehow that's legal. So look, 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.160 I think we either got to go down one road here, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.120 but we got to stick to it. Do you think 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:33.400 we need to crack down further on prostitution in California 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.080 make soliciting prostitution of any age a felony? Or do 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.000 you think it's time to go the other way and 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.520 go full Amsterdam and legalize and regulate this industry. What 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.480 say you give us a call eight hundred two two 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.720 two five two two two one eight hundred two two 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.600 two five two two two. Would you like to see 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.800 California crack down even further on prostitution and sex trafficking? 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.000 Or should we screw it, legalize and regulate the industry? 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.520 Cut the pimps out of the game because the prostitutes 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:12.639 can be independent contractors. What do you think legalize it 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.440 or crack down further? Eight hundred two two two five 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.640 two two two. California Attorney General rom Banta announced over 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:25.440 one hundred arrests in San Diego County for solicitation of prostitution. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.359 But because of California laws, unless they were a minor, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.960 these guys are only getting a ticket. So do you 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.120 think we need to crack down even further on solicitation 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.399 of prostitution making it a felony or should we go 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.440 full Amsterdam and just legalize and regulate this never ending 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:43.480 demand industry. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:44.600 What say you? 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.600 There's no wrong answer here eight hundred two two two 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.280 five two two two. If you'd like to email us, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.520 you could do so at Johnny don't like show at 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.960 gmail dot com. Al writes in fun fact from World 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.840 War Two. During the war, prostitutes around military basis complain 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.679 a teenage girls who were khaki wacky. We're giving it 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.280 away and severely cutting into their business. I bet Shang 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:07.760 likes that, so let's hear from her. 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:08.320 That's right. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:09.560 I like that. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:10.360 That is amazing. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.920 And by the way, we're going to Gladstone's in Long 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.760 Beach on Friday, February sixth. How exciting is this. 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Eight hundred two to two two five 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.960 two two two one eight hundred two two two five 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:56.239 two two two. Rob Bonta announced a huge operation up 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.679 and down the state of California, but mostly focused in 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.200 San Diego, arresting over one hundred people for solicitation of 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.560 prostitution and or loitering. But most of those people unless 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.920 they were going after a minor just got a ticket. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.000 So there's two ways we can go here. Do we 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.960 need to crack down even further to curb demand of 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:20.280 prostitution in California, making solicitation a felony, or do we 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.879 go the other way, legalize and regulate this industry and 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.200 go full Amsterdam? 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:26.280 What say you? 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.320 Eight hundred two two two five two two two one 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:31.680 eight hundred two to two two five two two two. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.000 I will say this, Amsterdam is an immaculately clean city 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.439 and you don't really see any street walking because you 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.840 know exactly where to get that service and it is legal. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.000 Let's go to John in San Jose. 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.359 John, Hello, Hello, Bob. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.080 I agree, it would be savor for the guys. It 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.280 would be savor for the women for having legalized You 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.000 would do way went to pimp and the girls gets 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:03.520 beat up. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:06.760 There is that aspect to it. 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.639