Colorado Springs police try public shaming to fight prostitution

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Nearly three out of every five communities known to have conducted stings targeting johns later publicized the identities of arrestees...

Some agencies publicized johns on billboards or public access television, and in Corpus Christi, Texas, convicted johns had to put bumper stickers on their cars saying "Stop Prostitution,", the review found.

Not all programs have run smoothly, though.

The Denver Police Department's "Johns TV" initiative, which aired pictures of people convicted of soliciting for sex on the city's TV channel, ended after a few years. It failed to meet several goals, including reducing recidivism, said Sonny Jackson, a Denver police spokesman....

"These people aren't predators and don't need to be publicly shamed," Loew said. "It's almost even worse than being on the sex offender registry, because ... people are going to be able to Google that 'so and so' was convicted of soliciting a prostitute. And that will be on there forever."

http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-...rticle/1549233

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Yep..... This is a need to know in TX