Forum Newsfront

November, 1969

Prostitution and the MaleCleveland--In one of the most devious schemes yet conceived to fight prostitution, city police turned part of their enforcement problems over to the wives of Cleveland's philandering males. The plan works (if it works) like this: Patrolmen record license numbers of cars seen cruising the city's east-side districts, apparently shopping for streetwalkers; police then mail the car owner a postcard bearing a message to the effect that his car "passed inspection" at...