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I've been in vice for 10 years. When I first started this 

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This was, I mean there would literally be 20 girls out 

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here right now, but we've definitely alleviated some of 

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it. Today we're 

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running a demand suppression operation, which 

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basically is commonly referred to as a John sting. 

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[ MUSIC ] There's 

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a lot of school of thought about if you can cut down on 

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the customers, prostitution will go away. We 

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set up an operation where we have undercover 

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officers. Officers acting as prostitutes. The Johns 

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basically know that this is one of the tracks where 

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prostitutes walk. When we do this one person is 

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assigned. My only job today is to watch the girls. 

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[ SOUND ] All right. It's a go on the silver car. It's still 

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sitting there facing north. He is now backing up to go 

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eastbound on the road. [ SOUND ] Oh, now 

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he's coming west. I basically just give my observations 

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as well as I can to make it easier for them to identify 

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the car when the squad car pulls out of their spot to do 

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the takedown. The got them. For us 

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it's mostly a scare tactic. We're trying to kill the 

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demand. You know what I mean. Just to let these guys 

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know Know that you just can't come to me and I need 

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to pick up a prostitute. When she flips her hair 

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up, that means that a deal's been done for sex. It's a 

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go with the male. It's a go. All right, it's a go on the 

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black car, still sitting at the stop sign. All right it's a go, 

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car's facing east [ UNKNOWN ] still, she's walking away. 

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It's right when you get out 

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at that light to your left. [ MUSIC ] You got it. 

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[ NOISE ] And 

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then once the laws related to solicitation of a sex act 

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and the Cook County public morals nuisance ordinance 

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are violated, then the offenders are taken into custody 

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and are processed by us. I'm gonna bring you back, 

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I'm gonna explain everything to you, okay? All right? 

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While what I'm doing right here is writing an ordinance 

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violation. It's a solicitation of public moral act, okay? 

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With the 

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ordinance, the fine is $ 500 to a $ 1000. 

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Plus there's an administrative toll fee of total vehicle. 

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So it's a lot harder for a person to go home and 

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explain I just spent $ 1, 200. OK, what I'm going to 

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do, I'm going to uncuff you, you can sit down. I'm going 

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to take your ID and process you, OK? You're not going 

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to jail, alright? You're going to get a ticket, so 

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cooperate with us and then you'll be on your way 

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home. Okay, thank you. We've always been fighting this 

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kind of stuff, but we didn't always have the laws. The 

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laws have changed quite a bit. So now we can go after 

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the predators and have the tools that we need to be 

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able to lock them up and investigate them. 

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