New York Adult Entertainment: Letter: More fair reporting on Fair Haven, please
I am deeply disappointed, however, that the same critical analysis was not provided for the New Haven Police Department’s “story” on a Fair Haven prostitution sting (“Police charge nine women in prostitution sting,” Sept. 29). The piece reads like a NHPD press release; where is the News’ reporting?
As a resident of Fair Haven, I can think of many interventions that the city could provide for our community that would be more useful than entrapping nine low-income women on prostitution charges. For example, comprehensive harm-reduction services that engage drug users in systems of care by providing safe housing and access to treatment for mental health and addiction problems would be a better response to “complaints from citizens in the area” than incarcerating these women for a few months before releasing them back into the same community circumstances that led to their arrests.