Residents of the Pigtown neighborhood of Baltimore are very familiar with prostitution and the illegal activity that surrounds it. There are quite a few Pigtown residents who are fighting as hard as they can to clean up the area but it is a hard fight and they need their politicians and the police to step up their efforts. Unfortunately prostitution has become so accepted in Baltimore that there is a web site out there that openly lists where to pick up a prostitute and other not so clean details. This site also provides locations of so-called "massage parlors" and other fronts for prostitution. I want to remind all of you that prostitution in Baltimore goes hand in hand with the drug trade. We all know how the drug trade ruins everything it touches. I don't want to hear that this is just about lonely guys buying sex. It is about desperate people fueling drug addictions and ruining the quality of life in once stable neighborhoods. It is about the aura of lawlessness in Baltimore that gives many the impression that they can get away with anything.
Here is the web site. If your workplace has a strict internet usage policy then I advise you to only open this site at your home. I am providing this information so all of you can understand how brazen these people are and to wake up our leaders. I hope that by publicizing this site that many involved with this site will be apprehended or just scared out of trolling Baltimore neighborhoods for prostitutes. While you are checking out the above site you should also check out Baltimore John Watch.
Pigtown is not the only neighborhood dealing with prostitution/drugs. It is a neighborhood that I want to focus on though. My next entry will deal with some other illegal activities taking place there and how the residents are trying to fight back by organizing and becoming more politically active. I also want to point out that Agnes Welch has been on City Council since 1983...