DID YOU KNOW?
• Man is the only mammal that willingly delays sleep.
• Women find men more attractive when they get attention from other
women.
– Source: sotruefacts.com
MARK BELLING
The trouble
with paying
for paving
Page 8
Reforms, not new taxes, are
answer to transportation woes
FESTA ITALIANA
CELEBRATES 40TH
ANNIVERSARY
– PAGE 17
SOUTH SHORE FROLICS
No blowing up
the beach
Page 11
Festival organizer, alderman
hear no complaints
MILWAUKEE COUNTY'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
JULY 21, 2017
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By DAVE FIDLIN
Special to the Post
MILWAUKEE — A public-pri-
vate program aimed at curbing
street prostitution in unorthodox
ways is about to expand to one of
the city's hot spots — the near
South Side.
With buy-in from a number of
city and county leaders, the non-
profit criminal justice reform
organization Benedict Center has
announced it is expanding its 2-
year-old Sisters Program after an
effort organizers have touted as a
successful launch on the North
Side.
Although reports have cropped
up in pockets throughout the city,
street prostitution is most preva-
lent in the South Side along
Greenfield, Lincoln and National
avenues.
On the North Side, where the
Sisters Program was targeted
two years ago, street prostitution
Program fighting
street prostitution
goes to South Side
See PROSTITUTION on Page 15
Dave Fidlin/Special to the Post
Assistant Police Chief James Harpole speaks at a news conference Tuesday on
prostitution at Hope House, 209 W. Orchard St. Hector Colon, president and CEO
of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, far left, and, of
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele look on.
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