Small knots of women preened and strutted in the glow of street lamps. The woman, a year-old mother from Vancouver, Wash.
There are no tallies of the number of women at work in the area. Vice investigators say they have made an average of 16 arrests per month of women on the circuit, compared to about five such arrests during the same time last year. City Council members have received complaints about prostitution from business owners, discussed the problem at a recent meeting and expect to hear a report on it this week from Capt. Street prostitution and the problems associated with it--drugs, theft and assaults--have dogged Stanton since the mids.
Gina, 25, said she came here from San Diego because she heard good things about the city of slightly more than 30, people. Kimberly of Los Angeles said she left her native city to work along Beach Boulevard in Stanton after the civil unrest in April and May. Nineteen-year-old Angela, who was working one recent night in north Stanton along Beach Boulevard, said her pimp moved her here three months ago from San Francisco and San Jose.
About four months ago, two motorcycle deputies were deployed to target drug dealing in different parts of the city, Eason said. You think about a square job and its oh no, just two checks per month. The money is like really addictive.
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