Tricks turn for about $120 in tourist-destination O.C., and a single girl can bring her pimp $1,000 a day. He sees each of his women as a walking ATM, with a heartbeat!” wrote Mack. “(A) pimp … has a whole different use of the women he’s in control of … to get him rich. The material is available at, some of it for instant download. In addition to the likes of “Pimpology” and, the informal curriculum to demystify this underworld includes films like the HBO documentary “Pimps Up, Ho’s Down,” “Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,” and “Cross Country Pimping ” and books like Iceberg Slim’s “The Story of My Life” and Quincy Mack’s “The Naked Soul of Pimps and Prostitutes,” officials at Anaheim PD said. “One of the great things about Orange County is we’re one of the pioneers in this,” said Lita Mercado, program director for Community Service Programs, which administers the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. These efforts are usually not much welcomed at first, but officials keep trying. They call the families – who often couldn’t care less – and get the girls to safe harbors for care, counseling and education.
Officers try to isolate these women from the men – especially if they suspect the girls are underage – and wrangle parents’ names and phone numbers out of them. But law enforcement is viewing them as the starting point of the probe, rather than the end game. About 600 women were arrested on prostitution-related charges in Orange County in 2013, according to the California Department of Justice. Prostitutes have traditionally been busted because they’re easy to catch. Prostitution, a victimless crime? Hardly. You need to make sure that principle is set from the very beginning and you keep that up.” “Making sure she understands she no longer owns (her sexual organs), or a body or even a mind at this point. “The main thing about putting a b- you just turned out to work is breaking her down mentally,” instructs the how-to website, which carries a disclaimer that it’s for entertainment purposes only. Police in Anaheim, Westminster and Garden Grove have been on the leading edge in considering that women who “walk the track” may be victims of vicious manipulators rather than garden-variety criminals.
People say, ‘That’s not a problem in my neighborhood.’ Well, if you have a motel, you have a problem.” “These women are branded, controlled, forced to do things against their will. “But we are dealing with modern-day slavery here. “You can’t throw the word ‘slavery’ around carelessly,” said Deputy District Attorney Brad Schoenleben. It’s part of a sea change in how law enforcement views the crime of prostitution, and where it places the blame.
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