Should Old Northeast use SOAP and SODA?

SOAP stands for "stay out of areas of prostitution," and SODA is an acronym for "stay out of drug areas." They're a new technique in crime prevention. A habitual prostitute, for example, might get a SOAP order as part of her probation. If she got busted for working on Independence Avenue, she wouldn't be allowed to hang out there anymore. Some Old Northeast neighborhood groups are pushing officials to use SODA/SOAP clauses more.

A group of people trying to help sex workers and drug addicts protested SODA and SOAP at the city council yesterday, though, Lynn Horsley reports.

They said they were concerned that the initiative further criminalizes victims and isolates them, keeping them out of areas where they live and where they can get access to support services.

Comments

[D-man]

I think some of these hookers just need some soap. .... and maybe a toothbrush. You'd think if I'm spending my hard earned money I can eat least get a halfway clean, uh nevermind.

[Searching]

You'd think if I'm spending my hard earned money I can eat least get a halfway clean, uh nevermind.

LOL DMAN... quite a typo there

yeah, I saw the hookers with their protest signs on the news last night. NO SOAP they were saying.. told the city council that they should be ashamed of themselves.

[Tim P]

Drew/Chuck: Prepare to be shocked.

I totally support this. If you can't keep yourself from those areas that get you in trouble, we will do it for you.

[you-bet]

Tim P - good way to put that. I'd have to agree.

[Searching]

f you can't keep yourself from those areas that get you in trouble, we will do it for you. TIM P

Just more government controls. If someone breaks the law throw em in jail, fine them.IF they continue to break the law.. do it again.. that is the courts job... Telling people that there are now more laws for you, then other people... that's bullsh@t.
I am even ok with it as part of a probation.. but to make it forever and without limits.. is just wrong.
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Not that I really give a crap about a bunch of hookers and drug addicts.... but, who's next?

[Drew]

Tim P, I'm very proud of you. However, I actually think that while in theory this is a good idea, in practice it will just spread the vermin. That effect is too bad for the people who live in the areas already infested with dope and hookers, but there are people in the outlying areas who have a stronger interest in keeping the vermin isolated.

There are strong arguments on both sides, though. Nobody knows how it will shake out until it's implemented. We can be best friends now Tim, no?

[Jonathan]

I think we need internal passports and internal migration controls; otherwise, things will just get worse. As long as people can just wander from place to place as they choose, we will not have social order or stability. Just look at great, strong nations like Germany under the Third Reich, the USSR from Stalin on, or the modern-day People's Republic of China (the engine of prosperity in today's world, mind you): in all of those states the government controlled, as much as possible, the movement of their citizens. Undesirables were always under control, leading to great social stability, peace, and prosperity for all (undesirables excepted, of course!). We must get rid of all degenerate talk of 'freedom,' 'liberty,' and 'human rights,' and embrace absolute rule over our lives by the state! I am glad to see like-minded comrades here- but we must not rest until every vestige of human liberty has been crushed, and we live in a glorious land free of undesirables and defective people and human dirtiness! Death to freedom! Long live the State!