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Calgary Police charge 33 people in four-day prostitution sweep

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It’s not uncommon for Victor Goosen to pass by a sex worker when he’s leaving or returning to his Forest Lawn home.

For the past five years, Goosen has lived on 19th Avenue S.E., a known stroll for sex workers in Calgary.

“They’re constantly around,” said Goosen, the vice-president of the Forest Lawn Community Association. “The police do their best, they’re constantly talking to them.”

“Really, it’s the johns that are the problem,” he said.

A four-day police operation targeting street-level sex trafficking recently resulted in the arrest of 33 people, charged with unlawfully communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services.

District 1 officers and members of the vice unit conducted the operation Oct. 13-16, honing in on areas identified as problem locations by police and community members.

Police used undercover operators to target offenders in Forest Lawn, the Beltline and downtown, said Det. Paul Rubner with the vice unit.

While police see “noticeably fewer” sex trade workers on the streets, it’s fairly standard for police to nab around 30 people looking to obtain sexual services during a weeklong sting, said Det. Paul Rubner with the vice unit.

In addition to those charges, police provided information to sex trade workers and issued eight summonses for various traffic offences. Two people were arrested on warrants as disqualified drivers and had their vehicles impounded, while a third person was arrested on a Criminal Code warrant.

“We can tell when they’re doing a crackdown because the problem goes away for a little while, it calms down, but then comes back,” said Goosen. “You see the police trying all the time, but I think it’s like trying to catch a waterfall with a bucket.”

Police say their highest priority in prostitution enforcement are those cases involving minors, exploitation and human trafficking. The service also works with community agencies such as Servants Anonymous and Shift Calgary to help those who want out of the sex trade.

“Every woman that we encounter is offered the opportunity to get out of the lifestyle,” Rubner said. “It they do want us to help them, then we can very often have them helped and have them safe inside of two hours.”

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country’s remaining prostitution laws, ruling them unconstitutional. The federal Conservative government responded with Bill C-36, which explicitly outlaws the buying — not the selling — of sex.

“Even before Bedford (Canada v. Bedford, the Supreme Court ruling), it wasn’t really our practice to charge sex trade workers,” Rubner said. “It was really seen as marginalizing an already marginalized segment of society.”

The bill criminalized the purchase of sex for the first time and also forbade advertising the sexual services of someone else, but does not forbid posting one’s own online ads.

Critics have said that the new legislation, enacted in December 2014, will make sex work more dangerous because it will be more difficult for sex workers to weed out dangerous clients.

Last summer, police charged another 36 people following two prostitution stings. Four of them were arrested for communicating for the purposes of attaining sexual services from a minor.
 

wpgguy

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who was saying that bill C-36 is ignored and not enforced?
Did you even read the article? Just another street sweep. Your fear mongering is getting old.

IMHO these street sweeps are a good thing and I hope they keep them up.
 

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It takes a little extra step to send those undercover cops online and to motels. Bill c-36 does not distinguish between street and indoor/online sex trade. I hope you wouldn't be the first one to be charged in online stings after the cops are done with street sweeps. Evangelical and radical feminist groups are aware that most of sex trade happen online and pressuring the cops to move their focus to online activities
More fear mongering. Street sweeps have been going on for decades and nothing has changed. The sky is not falling. The cops have better things to do.
 

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No the law has changed, the previous law made it an offense to sollicit only in the street. Bill c-36 made it an offense to sollicit and pruchase sex anywhere
But it's never been used, every time news of a street sweep surfaces you trumpet C-36 C-36 C-36. The cops have NEVER used C-36 and I doubt they ever will.

Quite being such a chicken little and trying to blame every street bust on C-36 or go hide under your bed until the law changes again.
 

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Those 33 people arrested were charged under C-36 for communicating for the prurpose of obtaing sexual services for consideration.
So why are you lying when you said C-36 has never been used
Street sweep, nothing but a street sweep. They mention C-36 exists but nothing else. No mention of them using it. The cops don't give a crap about anything but the street scene, don't want to get busted don't pick up street girls. They would have been busted wwith or with out it, and well they should NOTHING Has changed.
 
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