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...were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood-ten times the average for the city's 16 other police divisions. The streets teemed with whores, transvestites and the S-M crowd dangling slave bracelets and chains. Alarmed, L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis assigned his executive officer, Captain Ken Hickman, 37, to clean up the mess with 180 extra...
Touring Hollywood in his unmarked blue squad car, Hickman pointed out the sights to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce. Driving by one apartment building, Hickman recalled, "Until recently, the whores there had a ten-year-old boy acting as a lookout." Entering an "encounter parlor," he was greeted by a woman in halter and shorts-and told that she holds "rap sessions." Then why the mattress on the floor? "That's to make the customers comfortable," the woman explained. Replied Hickman: "It's easy to see you're trained therapists...
...Usually Hickman finds little cause for humor. Along Selma Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, male and female teenagers, many of them runaways, line up under the guise of hitchhiking. Grandfatherly "chicken hawks," men in their 50s and 60s, haggle with "chickens," teen-age boy hustlers, through the windows of Cadillacs. Blonde prostitutes boast of earning $600 a night from Mexicans who have illegally sneaked across the border and pay premium prices for a fair gringa. Brunettes and blacks can at best count on around $300 a night...
...used to be much worse. "Prostitution activity is way down, both male and female," claims Hickman, who is proud of the cops' new "juvenile sweeps." In one of them last month, his men picked up 61 teen-agers on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love...
...been working hard all week on high cadence pieces and getting in shape, and it took a second settle to get the boat under control." Diane Hickman, at number five, said yesterday. "It seemed to be coming together until we hit the buoy, and that threw off the balance...