Sex News
July, 1979
Cost of Tenderloin SoarsProstitution is alive and well in San Francisco, despite the more than $2,000,000 the city spends each year to control it. During 1977, when prostitutes accounted for 50 percent of the female population in local jails, police recorded 2938 prostitution busts--at a cost, including surveillance, arrest, custody, prosecution and court fees, of approximately $1000 per suspect. Sociologists Marilyn Neckes and Theresa Lynch, who studied San Francisco prostitution arrests, concl...
