… The lady walked in here, she said, ‘Oh my God, you have a house full of cats,’” Gooden said. “I said, ‘No. I don’t even have a cat. I don’t like cats.’”
The worker for inspections accessed the vacant building to spray and mitigate the smell, and notified animal control about the cats.
Directed Neighborhood Patrols has been tackling issues large and small throughout the Passaic/Calhoun area of the city this week. The neighborhood is being surveyed as part of the program that acting Police Director Joseph Juniak hopes to bring to a dozen sections by fall.
“A lot of the issues we’re finding are not necessarily related to crime,” he said on West Hanover on Wednesday.
Besides complaints of drugs and prostitution, detectives take reports of everything from garbage to grass around vacant buildings.

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Newman was not charged in the April 2010 death of 31-year-old Stacey Coffey, of Telford, who investigators say died of an overdose from a “drug cocktail” made of eight drugs. Newman gave prescriptions for six of those drugs, though, including one to which Newman’s patient files said she was allergic, Bucks County Detective Timothy Carroll said.
Hailey Coffey, Stacey’s sister, said she met with Newman a few days before Stacey’s death and told him not to give Stacey any more prescriptions because Stacey was abusing the drugs and had overdosed previously, but Newman still gave Stacey the prescription.
“I warned him, begged him to save her life, and he did the exact opposite,” Hailey Coffey said at the sentencing hearing.
The two women Newman was accused of trading sex for drugs with also testified.
One of the women, who said she is a former prostitute, said she and Newman had sex more than 50 times in his office. She initially started going to him after being in a vehicle accident, but continued after the wounds from that had healed, she said. Continued…

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In many ways, the provocatively named WhatsYourPrice.com, launched three months ago, is just like any other online dating site. Women and men post sexy, glamorous pictures, write witty snippets about themselves that massage reality, and request fun, romantic dates with the man or woman of their dreams.
Except that so-called generous members (mostly men) open their wallets and bid real money for a first date with members who list themselves in the “attractive” category (mostly women). Once the monetary offer – known as a wink here – is accepted, the site facilitates e-mail contact and the parties can negotiate the details of the inaugural meet-up.
WhatsYourPrice.com, which claims 50,000 members, is the eBay of the dating world, with bids averaging $138 – of course, that’s the more cordial of descriptions. Some relationship experts have likened the site to an escort service, or to old-fashioned prostitution.

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Flory’s website, Southwest Companions, had operated for months before several prostitutes in Albuquerque mentioned the site to police, triggering an investigation late last year, Roseman said.Website users were split into three categories, and first-time visitors had to gain Flory’s trust before gaining any access. Ordinarily this was done, Roseman said, by “sleeping with a prostitute.” The prostitute would then report to Flory what sexual acts the two had engaged in, as well as how much money was exchanged.After that process, users were designated as “verified,” gaining access to a wider circle of women to choose from, Roseman said. If users became more frequent customers, their status was increased to “trusted,” which gave them access to more women and more portions of the website, including message boards explaining how to avoid the police, Roseman said.The site also included message boards where users could rate the prostitutes with stars, including the rating of specific sexual acts, Roseman said.Roseman said Flory had told police that he had not made money from the website but instead saw it as a hobby, “a safe place for guys to find female prostitutes,” Roseman said.

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… We’ve never seen an imbalance at this level,” says the Swarthmore College graduate and author of the new book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.
Cultural preferences for boys, falling birthrates, and economic needs – in China, sons care for aging parents – have met the introduction of cheap ultrasound technology that allows women to learn the sex of their fetuses. The result is an epidemic of gender-selective abortions.
Asia alone has seen the elimination of 160 million future women – more than the entire female population of the United States, Hvistendahl documents. That’s creating millions of “surplus men” who will never be able to marry because there won’t be enough women to go around.
The potential ramifications? Multiple. And worrisome: Growth in sex trafficking, prostitution and crime, in sales of child brides and in kidnappings of girls or women.

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The more compelling aspect of the novel comes from Unigwe’s deep understanding of the circumstances that lead four African immigrant women to come to Belgium to be employed as sex workers. In an interview online, Unigwe confessed that she “really wanted to hold [the Nigerian] government responsible.” She told how she dressed in tall boots and a miniskirt to visit the red-light district and interview women working there. She spoke with university graduates in Antwerp who ended up becoming prostitutes in Europe. This is the material from which she creates her four characters.Sisi’s business degree from the University of Lagos doesn’t land her a job in Belgium. She doesn’t have the right connections or bribe money even to get interviews, and she is left with little choice but to become a prostitute. Efe, one of Sisi’s three roommates in Belgium, emigrated in order to support her baby, as well as her three siblings. A second roommate, Joyce, who escaped a violent childhood history of being gang-raped as a child and witnessing the death …

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The Assembly and full Senate are to consider the bill next week in what is expected to be a contentious vote given that all 120 legislators are up for re-election in November — a fact noted on Thursday by union leaders who repeated “we’ll remember in November.”
Sweeney seemed unfazed, saying, “I’m not going to be here to be told what to do.”
Christie said public employees in New Jersey will eventually thank him and the leaders of the Democratic-majority for saving their pensions.
“New Jersey is setting a model for dealing with these problems in an honest, forthright and bipartisan way,” the governor said.
Lou Venezia, a 33-year-old firefighter in Bloomfield, wasn’t in a thanking mood when he compared lawmakers to criminals.
“I’m down here protesting all the pimps, thieves, prostitutes and racketeers,” Venezia said, “and I’m not at Trenton State Prison, I’m at the Statehouse.”

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NJ Professor Accused Of Running Prostitution Site
Updated: Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011, 10:58 AM EDTPublished : Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011, 8:18 AM EDT
MADISON, N.J. – A New Jersey college professor has been arrested in New Mexico and is accused of operating a prostitution website.
David Flory teaches physics at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J.
On Sunday, police arrested the New York City resident in Albuquerque, N.M., on 40 counts of promoting prostitution. Police say Flory has long owned a vacation home in Santa Fe.
Albuquerque Police Lt. William Roseman told The Record newspaper Flory’s website, Southwest Companions, was designed to give users access to more women once they gained Flory’s trust.
Roseman says Flory told police he did not make money off of the website and saw it as a hobby.

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Dr. Crist, who teaches at Utica College in New York and has been a consultant for the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office, said he greatly respects Mr. Bender’s work and is fascinated by “his insights into the detailed characteristics that make each person’s face unique.”
When Mr. Bender measures a forehead and the distance from, say, eye socket to nostril hole, he starts to see a face. From statistics and experience, he surmises how thick the tissue must have been, the shape of the nose, the fullness of the lips.
But there is more to it, as this case demonstrates.
Perhaps, a visitor suggested, the woman was a drug addict or prostitute who had dropped out of conventional society. The fact that she has been unidentified all these years pointed to such a background. Right?

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But don’t move to Denver just yet single ladies.  One important fact that the survey did not account for is cost of living differences.  Yes, only metro areas were included in the survey with at least 200 first dates and 30 single males polled to allow for enough variance in response, but one must also assume that these men are telling the truth, which is an assumption I’m not willing to make.  Who doesn’t inflate the cost of something every now and again just to seem a bit more generous.  Also, the website that conducted the poll is touted as an “online dating website and marketplace where users can buy or sell the opportunity of going out on a first date.”  Seems a bit like propositioning a prostitute if you ask me, with singles going to the highest bidder, but my own skepticism aside, bachelors might have been a little less than honest so that the “merchandise” is a bit more excited by the transaction.  

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