'All Night Long'; Oakland Installs Barriers In Neighborhood Victimized By Brazen Prostitution

CBS San Francisco

March 7, 2023

OAKLAND -- It's a new strategy to fight the world's oldest profession.

On Saturday, Oakland Department of Transportation workers installed traffic diverters on East 15th Street to try to stop prostitution.

Sex workers have been soliciting on that street for years.

Workers placed 35 water-filled plastic traffic diverters along at the intersections of 16th, 18th, and 20th avenues. The barriers were placed across the intersection in a way that still allows residents to drive in and out. But it blocks people from cruising straight down the street. The hope is it will deter johns using the street to pick up the sex workers.

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