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<br />OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly PagePage 1of 1 <br />Prostitution zone enforcement mostly affected whites, women <br />Saturday, September 29, 2007 <br />ANDY DWORKIN <br />The Oregonian <br />Portland police used two prostitution-free zones less frequently than the drug-free zones but banned a <br />greater percentage of those arrested, new figures show. <br />The prostitution zones will expire Sunday, along with the city's three drug-free zones, though police quit <br />enforcing the laws earlier this week. The prostitution law was similar to the drug exclusion law: People <br />arrested for soliciting, promoting or performing prostitution could get written exclusions barring them from <br />entering the zone for 90 days, except to live, work or access needed services. <br />One zone stretched across Northwest Portland between Burnside and Johnson streets, and 14th and 23rd <br />avenues. The other straddled much of 82nd Avenue on the east side. <br />Police wrote 274 prostitution exclusions in 11 months from September 2006 through July, 87 percent of the <br />314 arrests during that time. That compared with 1,015 drug exclusions out of 1,922 qualifying arrests, or <br />53 percent, police statistics show. <br />Whites and women received most of the exclusions: 152 women were excluded compared with 135 men. <br />And 149 whites were excluded, compared with 56 Latinos, 52 African Americans, 10 Asian Americans and <br />seven Native Americans. <br />African Americans were not disproportionately hit with prostitution exclusions: 83 percent of the African <br />Americans arrested for qualifying crimes were excluded, as were 86 percent of whites arrested. But 97 <br />percent of the 58 Latinos arrested were excluded. Police excluded 10 of the 11 Asian Americans arrested <br />(91 percent) and seven of nine Native Americans (78 percent). <br />The prostitution zones always got less attention than the drug zones, Police Chief Rosie Sizer said. "Partly, <br />there isn't a lot of sympathy for prostitution customers or prostitutes," she said. Also, the zones were more <br />narrowly drawn, especially the one along 82nd Avenue, so exclusions were seen as less onerous and less <br />likely to block people from their homes, she said. <br />©2007 The Oregonian <br />http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/1191036357171130.xml&coll=710/1/2007 <br />