I've had the subject of this post in the back of my mind for two weeks.
Now it's not rare that I keep a browser tab open to a story on the off chance that I might have a piece about the subject, but it is extremely rare for one to be open so long, and to keep nagging me to write about it.
However, this subject resonates with me for several reasons. It touches on the corruption of the media, politicians, our social service system, our immigration crisis, and the moral degeneracy that seems rampant in the Democratic Party. Leftist Democrats seem determined to sacrifice women and children for their own purposes, and more moderate Democrats choose to look away or make excuses for them doing so.
We can thank @gavinnewsom, state Sen @Scott_Wiener and @ACLU for SB 357, the “social justice” law that led to the explosion in sex-trafficking young girls in downtown LA.
— Will Swaim (@WillSwaim) October 28, 2025
“Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?” https://t.co/x5LUziW9Vh via @NYTimes
I've written about State Senator Scott Weiner before, several times, including a recent piece about how he is likely to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress in the next election. John just wrote a piece about Weiner backing a male felon's right to assault a lesbian in a women's locker room, because "trans women are women." He also wrote last month about Weiner and human trafficking.
Weiner has sponsored and passed laws legalizing intentionally passing on HIV to others without informing them of the risk, reducing penalties for paying minors for sex, and abolishing "loitering" laws that have been used to find and rescue minors who are being trafficked by cartels and pimps and who are forced into prostitution.
Had a chance to have a conversation with Senator Weiner. It was an honest one. I am hopeful that this is the first of many conversations we will have regarding women’s safety .
— Tish Hyman (@listen2tish) November 11, 2025
Senator Weiner said he likes working with fresh young people and that he is open to ideas.
And… pic.twitter.com/qEWcuh6DXJ
He is a one-stop shop for legalizing and normalizing exploitation and degeneracy.
This New York Times story is not about Senator Weiner, although it should be. It doesn't even mention his name. But what it does highlight is the consequence of one of the laws he pushed, and the devastating consequences his policies have had for women and children who are being exploited.
Here's the lede, which gives you a bit of the flavor for what the trafficked girls face:
Ana paced on the sidewalk at 68th and Figueroa, her front teeth missing and an ostomy bag taped down under her hot pink lingerie.
She surveyed the intersection in South Central Los Angeles, where preteens were hobbling in stilettos and G-strings. It was a Tuesday night this January, and Ana knew that most of the girls longed for a coat or gloves — anything to keep them warm — but covering up was not an option. Their eyes were cast down, but their hands waved mechanically at every car, angling for another customer to help meet their traffickers’ quotas.
Ana was working, too, but the years had worn down any visceral anxiety into something more like resignation. Ana was 19, but the girls on the street reminded her of herself and her sister when they were first put out on Figueroa for sex. She had been 13. Her sister, 11.
Their story had been unoriginal, at least for this street: foster kids turned runaways turned recruits, drawn in by a new friend on Instagram who offered to help them get by. The friend dropped Ana and her sister off at a motel on Figueroa and handed them lacy bikinis. Ana asked what they were for. They needed to turn in $800 each by morning, the friend said. They stood on a corner, shivering. It would take at least half a dozen customers each.
By now, Ana had grown accustomed to the protocols of the Blade, a roughly 50-block stretch of Figueroa Street that had become one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States. (Ana’s full name, as well as those of other trafficking victims in this article, are being withheld for their safety.) She knew to approach cars from the passenger side and get the money as soon as she climbed in. She knew which motels had rooms set aside for just this purpose; which schools and businesses didn’t padlock their parking lots at night. And she knew she needed to be dropped back off on the Blade every 30 minutes if she was going to reach her new quota of $1,200. The sameness in the days and weeks and months on Figueroa was such that Ana remembered little of them.
If you can stomach it, I recommend reading the whole story. The lives of these girls are hell, and it is nearly impossible to save even the youngest of them, thanks to Scott Weiner's law, which makes it impossible to pick the girls up without offering them money for sex—which is a supremely difficult and time-consuming process. Until that law passed, the police could detain a girl for "loitering" and try to help them get off the streets.
Over the years, the Blade had become much busier than when Ana started: more girls, more customers, more traffickers idling in their Hellcats and Porsches on the side streets, watching to make sure their girls didn’t hide any money and didn’t snitch. Ana had seen the Blade expand from three main intersections of Figueroa to more than three miles. She had met girls brought in from the East Coast and the Deep South, and there sometimes seemed to be four times as many minors as before — easy to spot by their over-the-top makeup and unsteady gait. The police helicopters Ana used to notice hovering overhead with search lights seemed to become infrequent. Eventually, she said, they disappeared completely.
In the shadows, Figueroa had become more violent. The younger the girl, the more customers would pay, which meant preteens were often being robbed and assaulted by groups of older girls trying to make quota. The traffickers who governed the street were worse. Tonight Ana was waving at cars in front of a tire shop when a trafficker pulled up on the wrong side of the street, climbed out and beat one of the girls near Ana over the head with a pistol. The girl had probably looked at him wrong, Ana decided. She knew better than to intervene.
Child sex trafficking is becoming de facto, if not de jure, legalized, as is the case with so many crimes in California and deep Blue regions.
Gangs that had long sold drugs began to take advantage of Figueroa’s lucrative opportunity. With a dozen girls, one trafficker could easily make $12,000 a night. “Drugs are sold once and gone forever, but girls can be resold indefinitely,” said Navarro, who had been in the division for two decades. Motel owners who noticed the parades of customers but feared the gangs’ retribution kept quiet.
As trafficking grew, the means to deal with it shrank. In 2021, the Police Department’s central human-trafficking unit was disbanded following budget cuts, leaving each division fewer resources to tackle the problem. According to Navarro, the 77th Street Division was supposed to have six investigators at Armendariz’s rank in its vice unit. Instead, she was the only one.
Their jobs grew even more challenging when California repealed the law allowing the police to arrest women who loitered with the intent to engage in prostitution. The repeal, known as SB 357, was intended to prevent profiling of Black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed. But when it was implemented in January 2023, the effect was that uniformed officers could no longer apprehend groups of girls in lingerie on Figueroa, hoping to recover minors among them. Now officers needed to be willing to swear they had reason to suspect each girl was underage — but with fake eyelashes and wigs, it was nearly impossible to tell. One girl told vice officers that her trafficker had explained things succinctly: “We run Figueroa now,” he said.
Gee, budget cuts from "Defund the Police" and a new law that made helping children being exploited by gangs and pimps almost impossible.
The result? "We run Figueroa now." And they can thank Scott Weiner and the pro-crime, pro-degeneracy left.
On alphabet issues, Scott Weiner basically runs California. He is the driving force for everything from lowering penalties for trafficking children to making it almost impossible to save them. He helped create the regime where sex offenders are housed in women's prisons, and of course led the charge to make California a "transgender sanctuary state," which mandates that California protect non-custodial parents who kidnap children for the purpose of sterilizing and mutilating them.
Senator @Scott_Wiener calls the safety concerns of incarcerated women being housed with males who believe they are women ‘ridiculous’. @ErinFriday75490 pic.twitter.com/jDdqxsXaKF
— mello_revfoxx 🪷 (@mellow_vello) April 29, 2025
These are not abstract issues or battles over ideological differences. As this story demonstrates, there are victims behind the moralistic blather.
“If you think men don’t belong in girls’ bathrooms, kids shouldn’t get irreversible sex changes, or cops should stop street prostitution of minors, Scott Wiener probably thinks you’re a bigot.”https://t.co/MHeFbuRwvm
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) November 8, 2025
This is the man who will replace Nancy Pelosi. And you can bet he will get the overwhelming support of voters in San Francisco.
Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points. They own this.
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