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But the idea of curtailing even a weak tool to hold johns and pimps accountable is infuriating to critics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2022

“Anyone who pimps himself out to the M.E.K. fails the litmus test for integrity,” he said.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

Backpage has stated that it monitors and removes thousands of ads and helps law enforcement track down pimps and rescue trafficked children.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2017

He has kicked out of his center pimps who tried to recruit the women, but he said the local police cared only about potential radicals.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2017

Blacktown crawled with white people, with pimps, prostitutes, bootleggers, with hustlers of all kinds, with colorful characters, and with police and prohibition agents.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey