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...Yorkers were treated to the rare sight of a virtually hookerless Times Square" [July 26]. As one who often strolls through Times Square without encountering any insurmountable difficulty, may I suggest it would be much more of a treat to see empty prisons than empty streets. Prisons have a bad enough effect on real criminals without our adding to the problem with all sorts of unnecessary "crimes." If the Manhattan hooker is, as you recently said, "feral," it is only because the rest of us have made her that way. A nation gets the kind of whores it deserves...
...results were briefly miraculous. For all of two days last week. New Yorkers were treated to the rare sight of a virtually hookerless Times Square. Gone also were the "pimpmobiles," the gaudy cars of the girls' "managers." The place seemed eerily empty and colorless. Even more curious was the situation in the courts. For the first time in 15 years, a day passed without a single arraignment for prostitution. "We usually have 75 to 80 prostitutes in here every day,"' said an unbelieving court clerk. "Today we had none...
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