Lot Lizard — Derogatory term for a person who is being prostituted at truck stops. Madam — An older woman who manages a brothel, escort service or other prostitution establishment. She may work alone or in collaboration with other traffickers. Pimp Circle — When several pimps encircle a victim to intimidate through verbal and physical threats in order to discipline the victim or force her to choose up. If the victim returns without meeting the quota, she is typically beaten and sent back out on the street to earn the rest.
Quotas vary according to geographic region, local events, etc. Reckless Eyeballing — A term which refers to the act of looking around instead of keeping your eyes on the ground. Squaring Up — Attempting to escape or exit prostitution. Stable — A group of victims who are under the control of a single pimp. This can be the area around a group of strip clubs and pornography stores, or a particular stretch of street.
A pimp may trade one girl for another or trade with some exchange of money. Trick — Committing an act of prostitution verb , or the person buying it noun. Turn Out — To be forced into prostitution verb or a person newly involved in prostitution noun.
And the first order of business is typically to collect all the money. Indeed, many pimps say they use deprivation to create dependency and motivate their employees by either compensating them with material goods or denying them these rewards.
Pimps also set up a host of rules, quotas, and performance incentives. Rules related to drugs and alcohol are common. Many pimps said that employees using hard drugs are typically unreliable and a danger to themselves. Others prefer that their employees not smoke marijuana or drink, but still tolerate it. Young dudes usually want to do drugs with them or rob them. Black dudes might try to fight them or might be pimps. They try to take their money or say they will pay you later.
About one in five pimps said they impose restrictions on their employees about what clients they can solicit, often banning black men and younger men. Pimps are commonly concerned that such clients would engage in drug use, be rough, commit robbery, or leave without paying. Black men are also suspected of being pimps scouting for new employees. In terms of revenue, about 18 percent said they impose a dollar figure quota that employees would have to earn each day. Other pimps say that, instead of requiring quotas, they incentivize performance by collecting and depositing cash at the end of every night so that the group starts each day without money.
If the employees want to ensure food, lodging, and other necessities, they would have to go out and earn more money, pimps reasoned. Some pimps instill competition between employees by rewarding the most profitable with attention and affection, and ignoring those earning less. As with any other company, organizational structures typically take shape within sex work businesses. To run a successful sex business requires recruiting, job training, marketing, setting prices, arranging date details, providing transportation if necessary, protecting the staff, collecting and managing money, and seeing to the needs of the employees.
On rare occasions, bottoms are made an equal partner in the business. Bottoms are typically tasked with training new employees on how to solicit, prepare for, and conduct themselves on dates. In some cases, pimps will physically discipline their bottoms to keep their other employees in line. According to the 28 pimps who shared information about business sizes, the number of employees ranged from 2 to 36, including non—sex workers to facilitate business operations. Pimps often network with other pimps.
These typically informal partnerships help pimps recruit employees, get intel on new business destinations, monitor law enforcement activity, advertise services, and even get financial help when times get tough.
Some hotel employees and managers turn a blind eye to prostitution occurring within their establishment, help market services, give discounts, and even tip off pimps to law enforcement inquiries.
In return, they might receive money or free sexual services. Other businesses that pimps said gave them preferential treatment include mobile phone dealers, photographers, clubs, clothing retailers, car dealerships, and adult stores.
Let me know when stings going on. He gave me a heads up. Within minutes, a client replies to her ad and she is engaged in an instant messaging conversation where she tells him the time, hotel, and room number where he can find her. Half an hour later, there is a knock at her door. The old-school marketing methods—ads in the phone book, local newspapers, alternative lifestyle publications, and business cards—are still in use, but they are ceding more and more ground to online mediums.
Forty-nine percent of pimps reported using Internet ads to attract business. Cooper did not elicit information from the women about what happened to them or their victimization, nor about their willingness to become a prostitute or desire to leave. II Procedural Issues regarding Dr. Cooper regarding her conversations with the women in the case and providing her diagnosis of 5 of 10 of the women. The Government also sought to introduce evidence regarding one witness Dr.
Cooper interviewed the morning of the trial. The court held that this would prevent defense counsel from investigating the reasoning and information in the opinion and was therefore inadmissible, contrary to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
King , F. Cooper at trial. Part of what the government needed to prove is that the victims prostituted themselves on behalf of the Defendant as their pimp because of force, fraud and coercion. The government intended to call Dr. Cooper to testify about 1 the typical means of targeting and recruiting prostitutes 2 information about the ways that pediatric development, family dysfunction, and the use of drugs can make adult and adolescent minor victims more susceptible to influence by sex traffickers, and 3 common ways that sex traffickers use force and coercion to maintain control over the victims' actions and to prevent them from leaving the relationship.
On March 16, , the Court conducted a Daubert hearing on the motion. The Defendant argued that Dr. Cooper was not "the right expert to provide profiling testimony on pimps and sex trafficking organizations".
Among other aspects of Dr. Cooper has been qualified as an expert in court more than times, qualified as an expert in federal courts fifteen to twenty times, and twice qualified in federal court as an expert regarding pimp-prostitute relationship dynamic. The court found Dr. Cooper testified that her methodologies in developing her expertise were based on her medical practice, including personal interviews, reviewing the work of other researchers, clinical case analyses and investigative intelligence from law enforcement professionals, which include under-cover officers.
The Court found that Dr. Testimony regarding the effects of prostitution rings on society at large or discussion about the violence used by pimps was irrelevant. The court would allow testimony that would assist the jury in assessing the credibility of the prostitutes, in understanding the circumstances that make certain persons susceptible to prostitution, the reasons to stay with a pimp even when beaten and why victims may minimize the culpability of pimps.
The court felt that without Dr. United States v. Anderson , F. Lois Lee, a government witness, on the modus operandi of pimps and on the pimp-prostitute relationship. Lois Lee, the government's expert witness, testified on the modus operandi of pimps and on the nature of the relationship between pimps and prostitutes.
Specifically, Dr.
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