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Article: Task force recommendation to legalize prostitution shocks even San Francisco.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 7, 1996
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SAN FRANCISCO _ In addition to being known for banning discrimination against cross-dressers, allowing the homeless to sleep in parks instead of shelters, and nearly inviting Fidel Castro to town for advice, some want this city to earn a new reputation for being hospitable to hookers.
Already, the vice squad goes after ``Johns'' and pimps with the same zeal that it does prostitutes. Instead of jail time, most first-time offenders can attend a one-day ``school'' where they are lectured about AIDS, children finding used condoms in the streets and prostitutes who were abuse victims. Even newly elected district attorney Terence Hallinan believes prostitution should be ...