It's all fun and games till organized crime shows up.

Our friend Sam just posted this over at SFist and it was too good so we're posting it here too.

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Yeah, it's all fun and games till organized crime shows up.

Here's the problem. Once you announce San Francisco is open for business and the cops are officially looking the other way, every john, pimp and trafficker who reads Google news will be on the next flight into town.

This is business 101 - supply and demand. The johns will show up looking for some. As a rule, johns are not interested in middle-aged white women marching in the streets for their sex-worker rights. Johns want young women, "barely legal" if you will. Wink wink nudge nudge. And johns love little asian and latino women. (Take a look at the Las Vegas yellow pages sometime.)

It's not as easy as you might think to convince high school and college-aged girls to prostitute, there just aren't enough of them. So you gotta import the supply. That requires coercion, violence, drugs, and for your shipping needs, you will have to go with organized crime (why? because they said so.)

So your supposedly progressive law has now resulted in a thriving prostitution, drug, AND organized crime trade. And if you think we have gang violence now, wait until the Armenian mafia is battling with the Mongols or Nortenos for control of the Tenderloin.