Along the border of Tucson, Ariz. The plan calls for police to search for underage prostitutes, drugs and the government-issued health cards that prostitutes are required to carry. When the program started, prostitutes and bar employees were carrying the cards, said city Sanitation Department Director Dr. Alejandro Gutierrez Moreno. Now, fewer than women bother to carry them. In a city of more than , people, about prostitutes are being tracked and only 12 bars are subject to inspection by Police and Sanitation Department officials.
To enforce compliance, small teams of police drop in on bars and clubs unannounced Wednesdays through Saturdays; workers and customers seem to take the police effort lightly. Barrn says the city is concerned only with the welfare of the predominantly American customers while leaving girls to succumb to drug abuse, disease and violence.
That will drop the infections of the clientele. Among 36 syphilis cases this year in Pima County, two patients acknowledged visiting a prostitute in Mexico, said Miguel Rojas, a senior communicable diseases investigator with the Pima County Health Department. In , of 95 cases, four acknowledged having sex with a prostitute in Mexico.
