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The prosecutor writes, "According to the detective, Rebecca told him that she did not wish to pursue the case, and Ridgway was not charged. I did it in the rain, I did it on the coldest nights, I did it in the early mornings, I did it on the holidays.

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The violent predators themselves know the prostitutes won't report. Working with sex crimes victims, whether the victim is a prostitute or not, is as fragile a process as lifting a footprint Prostitutes Santa Rosa the sand.

If we want to get the violent predators off the street, it's essential that we create overall police policy which treats prostitutes primarily as victims of violent crimes and secondarily as perpetrators of misdemeanors.

Victimization Percentages. For the safety of every one in the community, law enforcement must create a law enforcement environment both out on the streets and in Prostitutes Santa Rosa responses to individual prostitutes that encourages prostitutes to report violent crimes to police. To accomplish this, law enforcement should:. Day after day I did it in the rain, I did it in the coldest Prostitutes Santa Rosa, I did it in the early mornings, I did it on the holidays.

I did it on Christmas. Duffy's attitude was, "It's just another day, just another day. When I came to Santa Rosa, I had never before thought much about prostitution, let alone considered doing it. Prostitutes Santa Rosa the time, I was emotionally very weak. I had just begun dealing with the sexual abuse of my childhood. I had begun using drugs. And Prostitutes Santa Rosa was alone. It didn't take long for a man named Duffy to come knocking on my door, literally.

One day he just appeared. Looking back on it, there's no question he came with a plan all mapped out for me.

I know now he'd done it to many girls before. No Way! Are you crazy? Pretty soon Duffy was bringing guys over to the apartment. He'd say Prostitutes Santa Rosa me, "You know, you could spend some time with him and you could make a lot of money. When Duffy would bring it up, I'd tell him, "What? Then one day about a month after meeting him, the subject came up again.

My response was the same. There was just no way I was into that. But this time when I said, "No way! He broke my nose and there was blood everywhere. He was crazy with rage. I tried to get a towel and he said, "You move again, and I'll hit you harder.

But in order to Prostitutes Santa Rosa out there I needed to get high, really Prostitutes Santa Rosa. There was no way I could turn a trick without being high. I would get really drunk to do it. So very quickly, it was a vicious circle. I needed to get high to do it, and I needed to do it to get the money to get high. Mostly you need the drugs or alcohol to blot out the sickening feeling in your soul - and to get up the nerve to face the danger. Duffy never worked. It would be nuts to try Prostitutes Santa Rosa spend the Prostitutes Santa Rosa myself.

Duffy could appear at any minute. His violence was crazy and unpredictable. A lot of times I thought he was going to kill me. As much violence as I ran into on the street, the real violence was Duffy. He was going to kill me. It didn't matter how much money you make on the streets. Of all the prostitutes I knew, none of them ever had any money Prostitutes Santa Rosa ever. It was like it wasn't really our money.

The neighbors joined forces to press the city for that, he said,.

The money just cycled through us, either to the pimps or to the drug dealers. I did it in the rain, I did it on the coldest nights, I did it in the early mornings, I did it on the holidays.

Right from the first year I ran across some violence with Prostitutes Santa Rosa tricks. I got in this one car and showed the guy where to park and instead he drove me out to some remote place and then he got physical.

The next thing I knew he'd come around the other side of the car and pulled me out of the car. I escaped him. Then Prostitutes Santa Rosa jumped back in the car and tried to run me down. Another girl, he broke her tooth. And I've been Prostitutes Santa Rosa, tied up, and one time I had to kick someone's window out. But, of course, the worst was Bret Crevello. It started when he couldn't get an erection and time was up. When I said I had to go or he had to pay more money, he reached over and socked me so hard I Prostitutes Santa Rosa unconscious.

I came to and tried to get out of the car. But the door Prostitutes Santa Rosa been rigged Prostitutes Santa Rosa it wouldn't unlock. When he came around Prostitutes Santa Rosa opened the door from the outside, he ripped me out of the car. He dragged me by Prostitutes Santa Rosa leg across a parking lot. Stones and pebbles got deeply embedded in my face.

He dragged me to into an empty field behind auto row. He was in a murderous rage. Every time I screamed he kicked and beat me harder. But I kept screaming. And he'd kick and beat me harder.

He kept telling me I was going to die. He was in such a rage, there was no question in my mind, he was going to beat me until I was dead. What saved me was that just by chance there was a janitor working very late that night in one of the dealerships. He heard me screaming. He couldn't get to me because of the fence, but he did call the police. Crevello had been beating on me twenty minutes. I was in and out of consciousness. You couldn't recognize me. I had broken bones and my whole body was swollen and distorted.

I briefly remember the flashing red lights, and an ambulance guy saying, "You're Prostitutes Santa Rosa to be all right. I didn't want to tell the cops what all had happened. They wouldn't give me my money back and they wouldn't give me my house keys. They said they had to keep it all as evidence, but it Prostitutes Santa Rosa make any sense that they needed my house keys for evidence. I had to get an advocate who could convince the cops to give me my house keys.

It took a while, and then I cooperated and told them the whole story. But even so, I wouldn't have Prostitutes Santa Rosa in court if it had been up to me. Prostitutes Santa Rosa couldn't have imagined showing up on my own. I lived in total fear; fear of the courts, fear of the streets, total fear.

The only reason I testified was because Duffy made me do it. He made sure I got to all the right court Prostitutes Santa Rosa on time. It was like Duffy was going to make sure the guy went down because the guy had messed with his property. The reason prostitutes don't report violent crimes to the cops, no matter how serious, is because of the way the cops treated the prostitutes.

A lot of the cops got a thrill out of harassing the women. There was no sense from any of the cops Prostitutes Santa Rosa I might have Prostitutes Santa Rosa a victim of anything. I was just a fucking ho with Duffy. They would always come at me with really racist, really sexist attitudes - just to the max.

Yelling at me, "What's this white woman doing with this black man! Another time a cop totally felt me up when he said he was looking for drugs. It didn't matter if he was breaking the law, he knew he could get away with it. Or they'd write me up a citation for throwing a cigarette butt in the gutter. It was constant. The only way the women would report a crime to a cop is if she thought she was about to die.

Never once in five years did any cop Prostitutes Santa Rosa hint to me that there might be help or a way out. But even if someone had talked with me I don't know if I would have gotten the message that there was a way out. There's only one way I could have heard it. Duffy would have had to be taken out of the picture. He was the real threat to me.

He was the real violence. I Prostitutes Santa Rosa more terrified of him than I was of any trick. And he had total control of me with that terror. Lost Opportunities. There were a number of times, however, when I likely would have talked to police. But those opportunities Prostitutes Santa Rosa always lost one way or another.

One time Duffy was chasing me on the street in one of his random rages. I ran Prostitutes Santa Rosa the hotel and screamed to the front desk clerk, "Please call the police. He's going to kill me. I can't go out there. Get the hell out! Another time Duffy was chasing me with a knife. Someone saw it and called the police. When police came they found the knife. And they had the eye witness, too. But they came and talked to me with Duffy standing right there and I had to say it didn't happen.

The cops knew he had a violent criminal history a mile long including manslaughter. And at that time, I didn't have any record at all. But I was amazed. The cops let him go. It happened like that at least eight times.

Someone saw or heard the violence of Duffy beating me. They called the cops. And the cops would come and every single time they would ask me right in front of Duffy what happened. Any cop that would have given two cents would have interviewed me apart from Duffy. And if the cop made even some effort to tell me he was concerned for Prostitutes Santa Rosa safety, or that he would protect me Prostitutes Santa Rosa I wanted to get out, I was so scared for my life on some of those occasions, that those were times when I could have heard the message.

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But it's an empty question, because no cop ever cared enough to do it right. They had to know. They knew Duffy's record. They were getting all these calls from witnesses Prostitutes Santa Rosa Duffy was beating me.

The cops had to know that I was in way over my head. And drowning. The Nightmare Ends. The nightmare Prostitutes Santa Rosa begin to end until one day Duffy knifed a man in front of my eyes over nothing. Immediately afterwards, Prostitutes Santa Rosa made me take the knife. But this time when the cops came, I could sense the cops knew it wasn't my knife. And this time when they asked me, I told the cops clear as a bell, Prostitutes Santa Rosa not my knife. It was the first time in five years I stood up against Duffy.

As soon as Prostitutes Santa Rosa went to jail, he started calling me from jail. A couple times I answered. And in a matter of a few days, I just stopped picking up the phone. Within a year I was completely free of drugs and putting together a healthy new life again. Of the dozen or so women I knew really well working on the avenue over the same years as me, three of them are now dead. One of them was Joanie Holmes.

See Note below on Joanie Holmes. Now, five years after getting out of prostitution, whenever I drive past the back of auto row where a trick tried to kill me, I wonder how was I so lucky that someone heard me scream and they didn't hear April Lynn. Cause you know she had to Prostitutes Santa Rosa. And April Lynn is dead. And I cry.

But I'm alive. I get to say to the Prostitutes Santa Rosa that are still out there that I understand - and really, really mean it. It's this last comment that is so revealing of a common police blind spot in regard to prostitution. Because there's a huge and obvious difference between drugs and gangs on the one hand and prostitution on the other.

In the drugs and gang communities the serious and Prostitutes Santa Rosa crimes are mostly mutual, back and forth, one group or individual against the other. But, in prostitution, the women and girl prostitutes are virtually always the victims of the violent crimes, and the male pimps and johns are virtually always the perpetrators of the violence.

We don't know of even one case on Santa Rosa Avenue where a prostitute has raped, abducted, knifed, beaten, strangled, or murdered anyone. As such, prostitution is much better understood as an institutionalized form of violence against women used by many males for the purpose of obtaining total control of the when, where, and how of Prostitutes Santa Rosa sex act. Trying to stop prostitution by arresting the prostitutes and ignoring the pimps is a lot like trying to stop domestic violence by arresting the victims and ignoring the batterer.

All that's accomplished with that strategy is a police strengthening of the pimp's control over the prostitute. Both Prostitutes Santa Rosa studies on prostitution and the details Prostitutes Santa Rosa stories like Angela's make clear that in order for women to be able to escape prostitution, the violent pimps who control them must be taken off the streets. Currently in Sonoma County, there is no law enforcement effort aimed at rooting out the pimps.

According to witnesses, Holmes Prostitutes Santa Rosa violently ill soon after entering her cell. These witnesses state that Holmes and other inmates repeatedly tried to get medical help for Holmes, but that guards responded with ridicule, despite the fact that Holmes was visibly extremely ill.

For over two Prostitutes Santa Rosa, the sicker Joanie became, the worse the guards treated her until finally Joanie Holmes was dead. A wrongful death lawsuit against the Sonoma County Sheriff's department was Prostitutes Santa Rosa in Holmes' favor for an undisclosed amount. From an investigation by Tanya Brannan of the Purple Berets. For more information click here. I had the answer. On November 6,Gary Leon Ridgway pleaded guilty to killing 48 women Prostitutes Santa Rosa girls, all prostitutes, in a 20 year killing spree in the Green River area of Seattle, Washington.

Although suspected of killing dozens more, even at 48 victims Ridgway currently holds the record for being convicted of killing more people than any other serial killer. Rigdway's record, however, may be short lived. Vancouver area pig farmer Richard Picton, currently on trial for the serial killing of women and girls, also mostly Prostitutes Santa Rosa, is suspected of killing upwards of 65 or more victims. But there is much more in Ridgway's story to shake human sensibility than the numbers.

And if you take a moment to ponder the events, Ridgway's crimes, and especially people's responses to those crimes, are instructive to our situation here. Misdemeanor Murders. A scan of press reports following Ridgway's plea found, not surprisingly, that the story received extensive coverage and debate worldwide. But virtually none of this debate dealt in any way with the issues of prostitution nor with violence against women. Nor did civil rights or women's rights groups make their way into the press to Prostitutes Santa Rosa this record sexist carnage.

Instead, the civilized world used the occasion to rehash the debate on capital punishment. Imagine if the 48 victims chosen for slaughter were Prostitutes Santa Rosa because they Prostitutes Santa Rosa blacks, or gay, or immigrants, or members of any other oppressed social group! A chorus of progressive voices would have called out for analysis and changes to make sure that it could never happen again.

These were in the minds of so many as some in law enforcement refer to the murder Prostitutes Santa Rosa prostitutes. The silence of society on the murders of so many women and girls bears immense responsibility for sustaining the shadows in which men like Ridgway can get away with slaughtering females for decades with impunity. The King County Prosecutor's official Summary of Evidence to the Court is a document worth looking at Prostitutes Santa Rosa the many insights it provides into Ridgway's mentality and crimes.

Included in the document is this set of quotes taken from a law enforcement interview with Ridgway in which Ridgway says to the detective.

You can't hurt anybody. You can't, you can arrest them and put cuffs on them, might be a little bit rough on them a little bit. But you can't, uh, you can't stop the problem You couldn't uh, I mean if its illegal aliens, you can take 'em to the border and fly 'em back out 'a there. But if it's a prostitute, you'd arrest 'em, they were back on the street as soon as they get bail and change their uh, name, and you guys, you guys had the problem.

I had, I had the answer On first Prostitutes Santa Rosa it seems a complete mental break that any criminal could view his criminal acts as helping the police, especially acts as heinous as the two decades of brutal murders perpetrated by Ridgway.

But at the same time, Ridgway's assessment of police or society's common cause with his is not entirely inaccurate. It's the prostitutes who are the problem. It's not the extreme social and economic oppression of women, nor Prostitutes Santa Rosa systematic violence against women, nor the pimps, nor the men who pay to rape girls.

The Gary Ridgways and Richard Pictons of the world can easily feed on these sentiments to suppress any last vestiges of conscience and, as Gary Ridgway put it, to "take pride in my work," and to believe they are doing police "a favor".

That's why there's hardly a city in the world that doesn't have a string of unsolved homicides of prostitutes. And that's another reason that it's vital that we as a society begin to speak out and act on behalf of the humanity, the dignity, and the rights of prostitutes to at least live free of the violence.

Because she was engaging in prostitution when she was assaulted. Gary Ridgway wasn't the Prostitutes Santa Rosa one who Prostitutes Santa Rosa that police and society would be more biased against prostitutes than against Ridgway's violence.

In November Prostitutes Santa Rosavery early in Prostitutes Santa Rosa killing spree, a prostitute named Rebecca Garde Guay escaped Ridgway's attempt to kill her. But it wasn't until two years later, in December of that Rebecca reported the attack to the Green River Task Force. In a revealing statement written by the King County prosecutor in his official statement to the court inthe prosecutor states, "Rebecca was initially reluctant to report the assault, because she was engaging in prostitution when she was assaulted.

Tragically, it was in those two years between the time Rebecca Guay was attacked by Ridgway in and when she reported to police inthat Gary Ridgway killed the majority of his victims. If Rebecca had felt police would accept her prostitution without judgment, and that she Prostitutes Santa Rosa be protected physically and emotionally by police, in all likelihood Ridgway would have been quickly put behind bars and the lives of so many would have been saved.

The prosecutor's summary to the court makes pretty clear there was ample evidence to put Ridgway away at that time for at least the attempted murder of Rebecca. But given all that evidence, why then wasn't Ridgway prosecuted Prostitutes Santa Rosa when Rebecca did Prostitutes Santa Rosa the crime? The Prosecutor's statement on this critical question is circumspect and suspicious.

The prosecutor writes, "According to the detective, Rebecca told Prostitutes Santa Rosa that she did not wish to pursue the case, and Ridgway was not charged. Given the possibility even at that point to have ended Ridgway's killing, this statement that the case wasn't prosecuted because Rebecca didn't wish to pursue the case leaves more questions than it answers. After all, inRebecca had willingly come forward on her own, willingly told her story to police, willingly led the detective to Prostitutes Santa Rosa, identified Ridgway and his vehicle to police, described full details of the attack and her injuries, and directed police to witnesses who saw her injuries and her hysteria immediately after the attack.

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Lights in the parking lot have helped, Prostitutes Santa Rosa Singh's neighbor, Juan Arballo, owner of Las Palmas, a taqueria he and his brother founded in that draws a crowd from around Sonoma County. The neighbors joined forces to press the city for that, he said.

Then a new character comes around. Singh is one of the Prostitutes Santa Rosa who don't seem to consider the neighborhood very deeply. It may sound odd, but the neighborhood reflects the county as a whole, said Maj Barkai, a tattoo artist at The Hole Thing. It's kind of seedy.

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Then you've got the working families. Then the people in their Mercedes. The two short blocks have an energy working in their favor, said Mark Dierkhising, owner of Dierk's Parkside Prostitutes Santa Rosa, a popular gathering spot on the east side of the street in a building that once held a hair salon and a bail bondsman's office.

Dierkhising points to its proximity to downtown, Prostitutes Santa Rosa Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Juilliard Park and the alley that connects the neighborhood to the trendy South of A Street Arts district as assets the neighborhood can build on.

They've redone some of the inside stunningly. You should talk to Prostitutes Santa Rosa. The Astro, opposite Dierkhising's restaurant, is the motel with two names. It is separated from Juilliard Prostitutes Santa Rosa by a narrow street and from BJ's Market, on the other side, by a used car lot and its locked, abandoned office. The hotel has been a fixture for decades, with a reputation still as ragged as it was before Sonny Patel fixed it up.

Patel, 50, bought the motel - long known for its active drug and prostitution trade - six years ago, determined to turn it around.

We've been desperately trying to open it. He kept nine rooms open for cash flow and said the remodeled portion of the hotel will open within a few months. The building will be environmentally friendly, with LED lighting and green materials, he said proudly.

Marble counter tops and polished wood-laminate floors accent the rooms. The still-wrapped mattresses are plush. He concedes that prostitutes have and still may use the hotel as a base Santa Rosa police report no calls for service to the hotel involving prostitution in the past year.

Maybe, or maybe not, said Doc Bones, 46, a tattoo artist across the street at True Till Death, the block's second tattoo and piercing shop. Later, from his remodeled hotel balcony, Patel pointed out what he wants and doesn't want, giving roughly as good as he got.

He wants a more pronounced link to downtown, perhaps through a line of trees, he said. I don't know about the tattoos. Does it go with the downtown district? I don't know. I'd like to see some shops, maybe a spa. Prostitutes Santa Rosa one day, kitty corner from the hotel, Jean Von Trende, 56, talked about the neighborhood.

As she stood in front of her home - a well-kept Craftsman - Doc Bones walked by. Bones nodded as he passed by. It's the people that make the place, she Prostitutes Santa Rosa. It's good, it's bad. The park, with its large lawns, pond Prostitutes Santa Rosa iconic stone bridge, is both pleasure and thorn for the neighborhood.

It's a hangout for people who are homeless, drug users and wayward teenagers; a place of serene lawns and Prostitutes Santa Rosa a site for community-wide festivals. She and her husband Prostitutes Santa Rosa married in September at the historic Church of One Tree, next Prostitutes Santa Rosa the park. Their home next to Von Trende is their first house. Doc Bones did her tattoo.

Sunset was falling. It had been a rainy day and the sky was bruised with dark purple clouds behind a faint flush of pink. Von Trende, extolling her neighborhood, turned her attention to the house next door, to Gig Hitao.

Santa Rosa Avenue. I say that. He doesn't call himself that. A trained sociologist, a former Peace Corp worker, Hitao has lived in his year-old Craftsman-style home since