Luckily, no one was inside at the time of the shooting. She said she suspects one of the nearby pimps did it. She didn’t want her face shown on camera because her constant complaints to police about prostitution have earned a pair of gunshots through her front windows. KPRC Channel 2 News talked with a small business owner whose office sits directly on Bissonnet Street.
A whopping 589 arrests were made on this street alone, and that doesn’t include the side streets. 1 spot for prostitution arrests is Bissonnet Street, along a 1.3-mile stretch between the Southwest Freeway and Beltway 8. Only on Click2Houston will you find an interactive database of all prostitution -related arrests made in Houston in the past two years at the bottom of this story.īy far, the No.
While no part of town is immune, some neighborhoods are hit particularly hard by prostitution and the other problems that follow, including drugs, robbery and violence.
HOUSTON – In just the past two years, Houston police have made 3,478 prostitution-related arrests.