Alleged prostitute-users posted on Net

theage ^ | June 22, 2005 | AAP

[Critical Bill]

Seizing on public embarrassment as a deterrent, the Chicago Police Department has begun posting on its website the names, addresses and photos of people arrested for soliciting prostitutes.

"We're telling everyone who sets foot in Chicago, if you solicit a prostitute, you'll be arrested," Mayor Richard Daley said.

"And when you are arrested, people will know. Your spouse, your children, your families, your neighbours and your employers."

Some newspapers already print the names of those arrested for soliciting sex for money.

Cities have tried broadcasting mug shots on community access TV channels.

And in Oakland, California, officials began a "shaming campaign" this year in which they posted billboards with photos of men convicted of soliciting sex.

The Chicago website was already filled on Tuesday afternoon with the pictures of 20 people arrested in the past month.

Officials are also distributing posters warning potential customers about the site. Besides the website postings, convicted "johns" face fines of about $US1,000 ($A1,285) in Chicago, plus the impoundment of their cars.

Judges can also order jail time for repeat offenders.

Last year, police in Chicago, the third-largest US city, arrested 3,204 people on prostitution charges and 950 on charges involving solicitation.

Officials estimate that more than 16,000 women are involved in prostitution in Chicago over the course of a year.

[Critical Bill]

Couldn't find the male sex offenders in Chicago ( quickly) but here is a sex offender I found recently that REALLY scares me.

Meet Mr Peppers.

[SittinYonder]

Those are interesting links you posted. Mr. Peppers is obviously not a real human being ... LOL gross sexual imposition LOL ... and the chick in the series photos on the prostitute link actually looks like a series of photos taken of a daycare worker throughout the day.

[edeal]

So what happens when the police inevitably make an arrest that later turns out to be invalid?

More and more our country slowly progresses to a police state. How nice it is to presume guilt. Maybe put them on a permanent sexual predator list for suspicion of being suspicious.

One thing I always wondered, what would happen if you ask an undercover cop "is this legal?" before agreeing to a transaction. Not being one who had ever knowingly committed a crime greater than speeding in my adult life, I have few opportunities to test it, but it seems that the police would have an uphill struggle to convict a person of a crime they advised a citizen was legal to participate in.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

One would think Chicago has enough violent crime that they shouldn't waste their resources on who is trying to get laid.

[Critical Bill]

....photos taken of a daycare worker throughout the day.

LOL

[Critical Bill]

So what happens when the police inevitably make an arrest that later turns out to be invalid?

Come on now, try and think like, say, Saddam Hussein did and attain that it is better to exececute 50 innocent people than let the guilty party off scott free.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Some questions for Chicago's leaders: Is there any website where pictures of corrupt Chicago politicians are posted? Is there a site where we can see pictures of people who were arrested only to be found NOT GUILTY in a courtroom? Is there a site where pictures are posted of police officers who haven taken bribes or have entrapped citizens wrongfully. Just wonderin'.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

If a man in Chicago gives his feuding girlfriend a diamond bracelet and then she gives him the night of his life back at her apartment, are police going to post the guy's picture on the internet?

[SittinYonder]

I'll stand by the "prostitute" as daycare worker statement, but apparently Mr. Peppers is real. ... Snopes has pics of him as a child. How unfortunate.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Mayor Daley has probably broken more laws in his life than 90 percent of the alleged johns being pictured publicly in this guilty-until-proven-innocent scheme of his.

It'd be funny if some struggling musician were to actually go out and intentionally get caught paying for sex just for the publicity!

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Case in point: Prostitution is generally cheaper.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Didn't Richard Daley stand by his man (Bill Clinton) during the impeachment scandal? What's the deal with that? It's OK to lie under oath, it's OK to get others to lie, it's OK to obstruct justice, it's OK to grope Kathleen Willey, it's OK to rape Juanita Broaddrick, it's OK to deny Paula Jones her day in court even after she wins a 9-0 ruling from the Supreme Court... but it's not OK for a factory worker to pay a girl 20 bucks for a BJ after work? Talk about hypocrisy.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Liberlism 101...........rules are only for the little people.

[taxesareforever]

I would be more interested in seeing the prostitutes pictures, addresses and names.

[Cindy]

"Alleged prostitute-users posted on Net"

GOOD.

[Critical Bill]

This is a list of Offenders from IL

Still looking for the Chicago list.

[edeal]

I would be more interested in seeing the prostitutes pictures, addresses and names.

Don't forget turn-ons and turn-offs.

[isom35]

we need pics!

[Critical Bill]

Here is a Link for finding sex offenders in every state!

[konaice]

Peppers would have to be an offender, cuz no woman is going to give it to him willingly.

I would be interested to know by what appendage he was held in place while this picture was taken, because the look on his face suggests it may have been his third leg.