MLB All-Star Game Prostitution Sting Nets 131 Arrests

[matcom]

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Law enforcement officials said Monday that 131 people were arrested in a prostitution and child exploitation sting between July 6 and July 12 in conjunction with the Major League Baseball All-Star game in San Francisco.

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said the sting was conducted because "a significant number" of Oakland-based prostitutes ply their trade at high profile events such as baseball all-star games, pro football's Super Bowl and the Hot August Nights festivities in Reno every summer.

Of the 131 arrests made by 10 agencies that worked together, 46 were in San Francisco, 40 were in Oakland, 28 were in other parts of Alameda County, 11 were in San Jose and three each were in South San Francisco and Campbell, Holmgren said.

Holmgren said law enforcement officials conducted undercover operations, posed as prostitutes and engaged in Internet stings.

Joining Holmgren at a news conference at the state building in Oakland, Nola Brantley, the director of the Sexually and Commercially Exploited Youth program in Oakland, said child prostitution has become "an epidemic" in the city, partly because many foster care and group homes are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

"Oakland is a hub for commercial sex exploitation," Brantley said.

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[underpants]

1. So that's where Vitter went to

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3382670&mesg_id=3382670

[erpowers]

2. Baseball Has an Image Problem?

So, is anyone saying Major League Baseball has an image problem? Yes, I am referring to how everyone was going crazy that a great deal of people were arrested during the NBA All-Star game. Even though none of the people arrested seem to be MLB players maybe something needs to be done to make the league better. After the NBA All-Star game people were saying something needed to be done about the NBA even though no NBA player had been arrested during the All-Star Weekend.

[gmoney]

3. Right... this is NOT a reflection on MLB

Anywhere there's a convention or a big sports event or something that's going to attract a large number of "out of towners" -- especially when they're primarily males -- the prostitutes and strippers all show up to get a piece of the action, so to speak. They probably do extra well at the Republican convention or "Promise Keeper" conventions.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Heh. Let's see soccer beat THAT.