The individual is then arrested for agreeing to an act of prostitution. Arrests of prostitutes include the use of entrapment, invasion of privacy, and the use of discriminatory laws or tactics. In these cases the police are stretching the law to arrest prostitutes. This is a violation of their basic human rights. I strongly feel that because prostitution is not legal in America, it is a serious violation of our human rights. In essence, the government is attempting to regulate the oldest profession in the world. .
Further exploring that legalizing prostitution will reduce crime, we must examine the amount of time and money the police forces spend on prostitution cases, In an average arrest, court and incarceration amount to nearly two thousand per arrest. Cities spend an average of 7.5 million dollars on prostitution control every year ranging from 1 million in Memphis to 23 million in New York. According to Depaul Gensha, criminalization of prostitution does not reduce or eliminate it. Instead, it promotes a ruthless underworld organization which increases exploitation and crime. If we legalize prostitution now, cities can save millions and police can spend time needed on much more important tasks like murders, assaults, thefts, and drug violations. People believe that drugs and prostitution are connected. This is incorrect. Jennifer James from the General Learning Press has written an article dealing with prostitution. In this article, she included a study which shows how nearly fifty percent of a population of woman used drugs regularly before becoming prostitutes. In other words, prostitution does not promote drug abuse. The drugs are already out in society and are being used by people before they become prostitutes. The drug kings or drug lords use prostitution as a way to hind and smuggle the drugs from place to place. Since prostitution is illegal, it has to be done behind the scenes, making it easier to hide drugs.
