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Local Paper to Undermine Small (Prostitution) Businesses
West Palm Beach is bringing back public shaming to deter prostitution.The City Commission has agreed to post booking photos of johns arrested for soliciting prostitutes on the city's web site.
West Palm Beach received national attention in the 1990s when it enacted a similar program, but it cost the city a $10,000 settlement after a man whose name was printed was acquitted and sued the city.
This time, West Palm Beach will only post the photos of johns who have been arrested more than once.
"If they've been arrested a second time, or beyond, you've got to make them realize that they're not helping society and they're endangering their own lives and the lives of any other,". Prostitution aside, there's a million ways I'm not helping society. Feel free to post my photo.
Why not just wait until they're convicted to print the photo? Is the thrill not visceral enough if it's not instant shaming?
@jfruh It's like when a dog shits on your rug – you can't wait to punish it, or it might forget what it did wrong!
"Fool me twice, won't… get fooled… again?"
Really? The "don't go to a prostitute" education program is called PIPE? Could they not come up with a backronym for DICK? (Deterring Illegal Copulation… Klass.)