Bay Point, CA
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Tactics Used |
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| Auto Seizure | ✓ |
| Buyer Arrests | ✓ |
| Cameras | ✓ |
| Community Service | ✓ |
| Employment Loss | ✓ |
| Identity Disclosure | ✓ |
| IT Based Tactics | ✓ |
| John School | ✓ |
| Letters | ✓ |
| License Suspension | ✓ |
| Neighborhood Action | ✓ |
| Public Education | ✓ |
| Reverse Stings | ✓ |
| SOAP Orders | ✓ |
| Web Stings | ✓ |
Bay Point, formerly West Pittsburg, is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California of approximately 25,000 residents, located an hour east of San Francisco, near Pittsburg and Antioch. Complaints about prostitution from residents and businesses, as well as reports of the homicide of prostituted women, have encouraged the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office to adopt new strategies that target sex buyers in addition to those sold for sex. CCSO officers have conducted a handful of street-level reverse sting operations to arrest sex buyers. The names and identities of the offenders are not typically released to the public.
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Key Sources
Street-Level Reverse Stings:
- “Police in Contra Costa Back Proposed Law to Deter Prostitution; County Ordinance that Would Force Customers to Forfeit Their Cars”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 13 1998.
- “Contra Costa Patrons of Prostitution Might Need a Ride Home”, Contra Costa Times, October 14 1998.
- “120 Arrested in Vice Sweep; Johns Targeted in Pittsburg, Bay Point Roundup”, Antioch Ledger Dispatch, June 24 2000.
- “Arrested in Bay Point Police Prostitution Sting”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 25 2001.
- “Prostitution Sting Sweeps Bay Point; County Vice Unit Places Decoys to Entice Willow Pass Road’s Johns”, Contra Costa Times, August 29 2003.
Auto Seizure:
- “Police in Contra Costa Back Proposed Law to Deter Prostitution; County Ordinance that Would Force Customers to Forfeit Their Cars”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 13 1998.
- “Contra Costa Patrons of Prostitution Might Need a Ride Home”, Contra Costa Times, October 14 1998.
Documented Violence Against Individuals Engaged in Prostitution in the Area:
- “4th Woman Found Slain in Pittsburg / Passer-by Finds Bay Point Prostitute in a Ditch”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 9 1999.
- “Serial Killer May Be at Work”, Contra Costa Times, January 10 1999.
- “Authorities Say Fugitive May Be Slaying Suspect”, Contra Costa Times, January 12 1999.
- “Killings Haunt Local Prostitutes”, Antioch Ledger Dispatch, January 16 1999.
- “Pittsburg, Bay Point Quiet after Killings”, Contra Costa Times, February 14 1999.
- “HIV Scare Led to Killing, Man Says”, Contra Costa Times, September 30 2010.
- “Man Found Guilty in Bay Point ‘Golden Flute’ Slaying”, CBS/KPIX-TV 5, October 4 2010.
- “‘Golden Flute’ Murder: Craigslist Prostitute Convicted in Calif. Killing, Robbery”, CBS News, October 5 2010.
- https://www.eastbaytimes.com/alleged-bay-point-pimp-facing-murder-charge-in-sex-workers-suicide/ (2017)
- https://www.thereporter.com/woman-who-scalped-sex-worker-sentenced/ (2018)
- https://humanthreadfoundation.org/bay-area-man-sentenced-to-life-plus-180-years-in-torture-human-trafficking-case/ (2022)
Background on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the Area:
- “In Brief; Undercover Cops Bust 5 Alleged Prostitutes”, Antioch Ledger Dispatch, June 5 1998.
- “In Brief; 16 Women Arrested in Prostitution Sweep”, Antioch Ledger Dispatch, April 22 1999.
- “Town Is Cleaning up Its Act”, Contra Costa Times, April 23 1999.
- https://www.timesheraldonline.com/how-a-small-town-detective-solved-one-of-the-bay-areas-biggest-human-trafficking-cases/ (2018)
| State | California |
| Type | City |
| Population | 25378 |
| Location |
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