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There was a relatively tense moment following Melissa Farley’s keynote address at the National Prostitute Diversion Conference this morning.
A woman who identified herself as a Dallas defense attorney suggested during the Q&A session that undercover Dallas vice officers often entrap entrap potential male customers, who she referred to as “fake Johns.” She did not elaborate or offer any evidence.
This conference was largely organized by Dallas police and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, so there were a few people in the room who clearly did not appreciate the woman’s accusation.
Among them was Dallas police Sgt. Louis Felini, the architect of DPD’s Prostitution Diversion Initiative. He was quickly on his feet, microphone in hand.
“We get tremendous amounts of complaints of prostitution in neighborhoods where families are,” said Felini, who added that officers properly enforce laws in arresting prostitutes and their potential customers.

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Day two of the National Prostitute Diversion Conference is underway here at the Old Red Courthouse.
Today’s keynote address was given by Melissa Farley, director of the nonprofit Prostitution Research and Education in San Francisco. Farley stressed a common theme of the conference, which is that women who engage in prostitution are victims and ought to be treated as such.
Her research shows that a large percentage of women who engage in prostitution were victims of incest, domestic violence and forms of neglect.
“If you are wondering how you approach somebody who is a victim of prostitution, the simplest model that so many people understand is domestic violence,” Farley said.
She said the initial treatment goals for women in prostitution are the same as those for other battered women: physical safety, basic self-care and substance abuse treatment at the same time as treatment for sexual trauma. I also spoke to Farley when I first wrote about the Dallas diversion program as it launched two years ago.

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DALLAS — The $16.50 gray fedora worn by Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby when he fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 is for sale.
Heritage Auctions scheduled an auction Saturday for the Cavanagh fedora.
President John F. Kennedy was slain on Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was arrested for the assassination. Ruby fatally shot Oswald on Nov. 24, in an attack captured during a live TV broadcast as the suspected assassin was being escorted by law officers.
Ruby was convicted of killing Oswald and sentencing to death, but was appealing when he died of cancer in 1967.
The auction house estimates the fedora, with Ruby’s name embossed inside in gold and the cost of the hat, will sell for more than $35,000.
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Dallas Police to Start Collecting DNA from Prostitutes
DALLAS – Jammie Wolf spent 23 years on the streets as a prostitute. She stole a car, went to prison and lost her kids. But she overcame it and two years ago started helping other women turn their lives around.
“For me, the scariest part was the hopelessness,” Wolf said.
Dallas Police say prostitutes are 200 times more likely to become victims of violent crime than the general population. So starting early next year, officers will begin collecting voluntary DNA samples from prostitutes.
“My command staff did not believe that these women would voluntarily submit to this DNA database, so we did a survey of all the women that are currently in the program and 100% said that they would,” said Sgt. Louis Felini with Dallas Police.
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At first some police officers had difficulty seeing the prostitutes as victims, but not anymore.
“From month to month, I’ve seen them change and look at it from a different perspective,” said Karen Green, who also overcame prostitution.

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Dallas Police to Launch DNA Program for Prostitutes
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Dallas police will gather DNA from prostitutes who volunteer the information to help identify them later if they are reported missing or slain.
The effort is part of the Dallas Police Department’s Prostitute Diversion Initiative, which aims to treat prostitutes as victims instead of criminals. The 2-year-old program is the only one of its kind in the nation.
Women can choose to enter a multistep program that offers help in exiting prostitution and helps investigators solve national crimes.
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Dallas police hosted a conference, that began Tuesday, about ways of fighting prostitution.
“Prostitutes are not criminals,” said Ateba Crocker, a former prostitute who is now an author and professor. “I know that they break the law, but they are victims of a bigger problem.”

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Jack Ruby’s hat to be auctioned in Dallas
11/04/2009
Associated Press
The $16.50 gray fedora worn by Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby when he fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 is for sale.
Heritage Auctions scheduled an auction Saturday for the Cavanagh fedora.
President John F. Kennedy was slain on Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was arrested for the assassination. Ruby fatally shot Oswald on Nov. 24, in an attack captured during a live TV broadcast as the suspected assassin was being escorted by law officers.
Ruby was convicted of killing Oswald and sentencing to death, but was appealing when he died of cancer in 1967.
The auction house estimates the fedora, with Ruby’s name embossed inside in gold and the cost of the hat, will sell for more than $35,000.

See the full article from “Dallas Morning News”

Gordon, a green-eyed redhead who was 20, worked as a stripper at Ruby’s Carousel Club on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Now, at 66, she is thought to be the last living woman who danced at Ruby’s club during that period in November 1963.
“I did what I did,” she said last week. “No sense regretting what you’ve done. I had no education and I had to have a way to support my child, and that was the way I did it.”
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Randy Redmond, a colorful Dallas businessman, is putting a little gloss on her golden years. He is immortalizing Gordon, Ruby and two other Carousel Club strippers on a mural in back of his building at 2616 Commerce in lDeep Ellum. Redmond rents the building for parties, and the mural adorns the entrance to a faux speakeasy in the alley.
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Gordon was born in Sulphur Springs in 1943 and was raised in Oak Cliff. She had a 12-year career as stripper Joy Dale.

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