Authorities Target Web Prostitution

Item: Authorities target Web prostitution: Police say Craigslist ads ease hookups for changing population of sex workers /Meghann M. Cuniff, SR

More Info: Kootenai County authorities were monitoring local Craigslist postings even before Philip Markoff was charged with murder and with assaulting and robbing women he’d met through the Web site, which offers free classified ads. A month after Markoff’s arrest, Kootenai County authorities took action, occupying two donated rooms at a Post Falls motel, setting up surveillance and calling numbers in ads offering sex. Eventually, a woman arrived at the motel and pocketed $400 she’d agreed to take in exchange for sex. She was arrested on a prostitution charge. Amy L. Davis, 21, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor this month in the only successful prosecution that came out of the sting. She’s to pay $300 and perform 16 hours in a Sheriff’s Department labor program by the end of September

Question: Should law agencies in the region expend money and personnel to target Web prostitution?