Re: “Denver shifts prostitution policing to buyers in national initiative,” April 29 news story.
Denver is to be commended for being “one of 11 cities pledging to reduce sex trade demand by 20 percent over the next two years.” As a country, we have been slow to acknowledge that the criminals in the sex trade are the slave traffickers and the johns, not the prostitutes who are victims of pimps and traffickers. Denver should join Colorado Springs in publishing the names and mugshots of all johns who pay to rape victims as young as 10 years old. After all, we read and hear the names and see the photos of accused thieves and murders every day. Why should johns be shielded from public exposure?
Human sex trafficking is a large-scale international problem that requires determined efforts to eliminate this scourge from our planet.
Nancy Kneipple, Englewood
This letter was published in the May 5 edition.
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