At the very beginning of this year, California’s Senate Bill 357 went into effect. Once this became law, it ceased to be unlawful for one to loiter with the purpose of partaking in prostitution.
Supporters of this measure touted it as a means of stopping the police from targeting transgender women. They also claimed Senate Bill 357 would make sex workers safer; however, with barely over one month of being the law of the land in California, the results remain disastrous.
Reports of human trafficking and other similar crimes are reportedly on the rise, owing to this measure.
A closer look at the ground in California
In real-time, predators like pimps and human traffickers are reportedly targeting women in the streets of the Golden State. According to local officials, even mothers who are trying to take their children to school are not spared.
Furthermore, thanks to Senate Bill 357 becoming California law on January 1, pimps, along with prostituted women, are seen everywhere in some parts of San Francisco.
