TPD Make Few Prostitution Arrests
Over the weekend, it seems as though TPD may be listening to
Seminole Heights residents’ complaints. Since Friday, TPD made numerous arrest for Prostitution along Nebraska Avenue.
It does make one wonder, if residents would not have become vocal, what would happen to our neighborhood. It is unfortunate that, as a neighborhood, we must continue to keep pressure on our city officials. The minute one lets up, we seem to slowly slip backwards. I am a bit puzzled to receive the emails below, yet we only see 4 arrest over a 3 day period, and only one within our boundaries. For those that continue to say prostitution is a victimless crime, please notice that with every single one of these arrested, each have records of drug use, some have theft/burglary, battery and more. With the exception of one, these are all repeat offenders. How do we break the cycle with these women? Are there no laws, programs to help these women?. Do these women spend any time in counseling, rehab, jail? If they are arrested for a repeat crime are there probation programs that make them perform community service in the neighborhoods that they are committing these quality of life crimes? Read on…
POWELL,VALERIE HICKS
Arrested on north Nebraska Ave. Has 3 arrests. All 3 include prostitution, drug paraphernalia and cocaine.
SANDERS,FELISHA MADDESSEA
Arrested near 50th/Hillsborough for Prostitution and possession of Cocaine.
SHAW,SHANNON MARIE
Arrested on 50th. Has been arrested 11 times over the past few years. Most arrest have been for Possession for drugs, cocaine and prostitution.
RODRIGUEZ,CHRISTINA LEIGH
Christina was arrested at Nebraska and Hillsborough. She has 6 prior arrest. 3 for battery, 2 for battery on a law enforcement officer, 2 for prostitution, 3 prior drug/cocaine charges.
Below are few emails that were sent on the email groups.
FROM THE SESH EMAIL GROUP and RECEIVED EMAIL:
Email one from reader: Please notify your readers. This Saturday, I picked up an additional shift at the hospital. Originally, the sift was supposed to be from 7pm am Saturday morning. With things being quiet, I as able to leave about 4am. On the way home, I drove up Nebraska Ave all the way to Sligh. From MLK, I was shocked to see the sheer number of prostitutes lining our streets. Just between MLK and Hillsborough, there were 13. North of Hillsborough were another 7. With this many working girls, I was surprised to see no police presence. Driving down the street, the girls are very aggressive and flamboyant. While I understand TPD cannot make an arrest based on standing on the street, surely, their typically “prostitute behavior” can make for reason to question or arrests. (Lifting the skirt, bending over showing tail, waving down cars, yelling at drivers, asking for rides, stepping out into traffic)
Email two from SESH Saturday night/Sunday AM
I made my lap early tonight. I drove Nebraska at 2am and there wasn’t a single hooker in sight. I though that maybe TPD had done a sweep. I then started thinking that maybe there is something to this 3am since that is when I always see the hooker crew. Then I realized that the bars close at 3am. I did a few laps and then parked in the lot of the big church at Hillsborough and 275. Still no hookers. Then I did a lap at 2:20. A hooker suddenly appears at Northbay and Nebraska. I also notice that 5 males, on foot, have also appeared along our stretch of Nebraska. At 2:25, I see two hookers walking on Caracas, toward Nebraska, from Talifero. On this same lap, two other hookers are on Nebraska, walking from Hillsborough. It was like they were all showing up to clock in at the same time. By 2:30, there were 7 of them. On the next lap, I saw something going on over on Curtis between Neb and Talif, so I turned on to Cayuga. There was a scrawny white male on foot walking on Cayuga at Nebraska. He gave me a funny look as I went by. Not 10 seconds later, I see a white cracked out hooker coming from behind the chiropractor building. That may explain why so many guys were on foot. I did a few more laps and still the numbers stayed consistent. The usual cars driving on the side streets started to appear. During all of this, I realize that I hadn’t seen a patrol car. Then at 2:55, I see one of those unmarked units. I made a u turn and another marked unit that had been behind me, slowed down and looked at me like he was giving some thought to pulling me over. When I approached Osborne, the unmarked unit, #824, had his spot light on 4 of the hookers that were congregated there. I did another lap and the unmarked unit had moved up the street and shined his spotlight on the 3 hookers by New Orleans. One police car with a spotlight cleared 8 hookers in 10 minutes. The two hookers that parked over near Hillsborough, took their time exiting after the patrol car drove away. I provided some encouragement, for them to leave, by slowing down and blasting my horn at them. At about 3:20, one new hooker appeared at New Orleans. Another came across MLK and took up a post at North Bay. I see a few patterns here. These hookers show up right when the bars are closing. They park within a few blocks of Nebraska. They are easily cleared with a police car and a floodlight. One last note. When I returned to my house which is near Hillsborugh HS, I noticed a suspicious vehicle parked on my street that was occupied by a scrawny looking male sitting in the passenger seat. I called the non emergency line and two patrol cars were there within 3 or 4 mins. I was impressed with the quick response.
FRiday night, we were coming home from a very late flight that was delayed in Atlanta. As we came to the stop sign to cross Nebraska a black lady yells, “Hey daddy, who about a ride?” I replied, I can’t but I’ll call TPD, I am sure they can find you a ride. To which she replies…Yeah, you can just suck my Di*k!
At this point, I drove down Nebraska. Almost every single corner had a girl on the corner. I did not see One TPD offer in the hood. I noticed on yesterday’s news that an officer had shot and killed a man in Ybor. Maybe all of TPD for our area were down there working the case. You would think with an increse in Ho’s of this magnitude, there would be a major increase in police presense. You can talk undercover, sting, etc all day long, but when you have this many girls and only one arrests, you can’t convince me that they are working this area. Something else has to be happening.
You are right that all these have drug arrests. The interesting thing is that they are all real women. You should have put the “prancing around in drag at 3 in the morning as one of your signs”
Has TPD had or taken the opportunity to explain the dramatic increase in Prostitution? I do feel that there may be some underlying reason that they are not making arrests, that other areas seem to have rid their neighborhoods of the problem, yet don’t even seem to have respect or the presence to make a dent in this area.
Legalize BOTH drugs and prostitution.
As BOTH are victimless crimes.
The theft and burglary are side effects of the first 2 being illegal.
Once legal, they’d be more likely to seek help. IF THEY CHOOSE IT! If not at least they’d not have to deal with the REAL criminal elements surrounding the trade.
When that’s done it could be set in specific areas away from residential areas.
The forced treatment mandated by the courts won’t do it. they won’t change till they WANT to change.
And saving them from being criminals is a good step towards helping them want to change.
Are you kidding. Yes, the crime is a “side effect.” If drugs were legalized, there would be many more addicted. Therefore, there would be much more crime as the addicts spend all their money purchasing drugs, miss work, become unemployeed. It is a vicious cycle. Legalizing would only make it worse.
Would you do drugs and become addicted if it was legal? Didn’t think so, neither would I.
The ones that want to do drugs are already doing it, heaven know’s they’re not having any problem getting drugs now.
“miss work, become unemployed” They’re not working now! Maybe if drugs were legal they could by what they want from money made from a low skill job instead of whoring themselves instead.
Alcohol prohibition only lasted 13 years before we realized the futility of it.
The “Official” war on drugs has been going on for almost 40 years and the problem has only gotten worse.
I think it’s time to take a page from the Europeans and start treating the drug problem as a health problem aimed toward harm reduction instead of a morals problem aimed towards punishment.
Yes, being honest, I would probably try some. I remember doing drugs in college, and quite honestly, They were fun. If they were legal, I am sure I would do them from time to time. I do remember how fun cocaine was, and can see how someone can easily become addicted to them. More so than licquor. I think it is a very bad idea.
I don’t think that that TPD is too intersted in prostitution. The more they arrests, the higher their stats go up. For something so petty, I don’t think they really want to risk their stats.
In their deffense, today - Sunday, they did make 4 more arrest along Nebraska and Florida. Two of the arrest listed address here in our neighborhood. One was in the 900 block of Ellicott and the other was in the 100 block West Powhattan. This will be very disheartening if they are now moving into our neighborhood.
Virtually every drug in our war on drugs was legal prior to 1914 and the Harrison Narcotics Act. That is right opium and all it’s derivatives; coca and it’s derivative, cocaine. Marijuana was not regulated until 1937, and then it was not crimminal penalties but a tax. It was not until 1970 that marijuana was officially criminalized.
All of the drug laws were in effect an outgrowth of the Temperence Movement that led to prohibition. Hell in the 1890’s you could buy cocaine in the Sears Catalog. Freud was known for his use of cocaine. In the 1880’s it has been estimated that more than 75% of all households opiates in their house.
As a familiar tactic to enact that law, the champions of the lawpreyed on racial fears and animosity: drug crazed “negroes”, degenerate Mexicans, and “Chinamen” seducing white women.
Most of the cost associated is the result of illegality. Just like prohibition of alcohol, it has provided an opening for criminal elements not afraid of violence. Crime and violence rose during prohibition and it made a sharp drop after repeal.
Who knows if you made all the shit legal it would be dirt cheap and it would likely help minority communities where drug dealing and drug running are more profitable than starting out at minimum wage and working your way up.
If people wanted to spend their life stoned or strung out at least they could afford their habit without robbing my house. Just as most alcoholics actually work, the same would be true with drug users.
Did you run out and become an alcoholic when you reached legal drinking age?
You could say that. I did not begin drinking until 21. At the time, I did start with Binge drinking. I think you would be opening Pandora’s box.
Sorry to hear that #10. If you were raised in a more rational and tolerant society you would have encountered it earlier, and would have been taught to treat it more responsibly.
As for “opening Pandora’s box” I believe the prohibition on drugs opened it.
To those who want to legalize all drugs, I understand the arguments. However, life in the 1800’s was a bit more forgiving of drug-impaired people and those around them. Drunk driving is already a major concern, tragically resulting in thousands of innocent deaths every year. Do you really want to be driving on 275 next to someone in an SUV puffing on a doobie or a coked-up maniac in a sports car? Unfortunately, these are not victimless crimes, and legalizing them wouldn’t make them victimless.
Well said #12. Unfortunately, people seem to turn a blind eye on the effects of drugs and alcohol. We have fought for many years to rid our neighborhood of drugs, prostitution and crime. Yet, many of the very neighbors that are marching in the drug marches and crime marches are the ones driving across town to purchase their marijuana. While they don’t feel guilty purchasing it from their friends, they often times forget that as the money changes hands, it eventually ends back up in the hands of the very dealers that we are fighting tirelessly to rid from our neighborhood streets. Since they do not see their faces, they feel it is fine. They need to realize, very few dealers grow enough just for their use. While it is easy to try to justify that these are just victimless crimes, the fact is, someone, somewhere is being impacted by your actions. While they are not impacting your immediate area, there are other neighborhoods that are fighting the very dealers, on some level, that the drugs are coming from. On this site, they have proven my point. Every prostitute featured on here have arrest for drugs and theft.
Your neighbor in the crime watch getting reffer from their friend is the cause of hookers on Neb.!
Get real!
The only other time I met people like you was talking to a true blue CPUSA member at Circus McGurkis, Total control of economy AND lifestyle.
I hope you’re gay, because the thought of you breeding is scary
#14, I don’t think they said that the “reffer” is the cause of hookers. But, the Reffer is the cause of drug activity. If you see the posting they were refering to (not to be confused with “Reffering” to) they referenced #12’s post that discussed drugs, not hookers. I do tend to agree with them that sometimes our neighbors tend to cause us to step a bit backwards. Bottom line, drugs are illegal. Doesn’t matter that they are. You buy illegal drugs, you support drug dealers, therefore you impact some neighborhoods quality of life. period.