Police arresting suspected prostitutes, taking them to church

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

47. OK. First of all....

This article comes from www.vice.com and the author is a New York-based artist and who wrote the article based almost exclusively on an interview with a single person who (clearly) is not a fan of the program.

So let's take this whole article with a grain of salt.

The facts are these: Project Rose deals with women without prior convictions for prostitution (suggesting that they haven't been in the trade very long, thus more interested in getting out). Women who were caught up in these sweeps were in the act of soliciting, but those who qualified for Project Rose were given that as an option; those who weren't qualified were processed as usual (i.e., given access to a lawyer). The article's argument to the contrary, this really is how some diversion programs operate.

There is a constitutional issue here: women with convictions who want into the program could argue that they were not given equal treatment. That's a valid point.