us: Police prowl Craigslist as vice moves off street

Craigslist, the utilitarian and highly-trafficked website that long ago captured the online market for classified advertising in the United States and around the world, has now replaced red-light districts as the new battleground between prostitutes who are trying to reel in new punters – and undercover cops whose job it is to stop them.Police departments are reporting new success in penetrating the electronic version of street-walking, in particular by scouring the postings on Craigslist, which they describe as a new hub of sex-for-sale activity. The site, they say, is busier than Times Square on a sultry night (or at least before Rudy Giuliani cleaned it up.)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2938974.ece

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