The Boston Globe, November 18th, 1990
Awoman stood in the doorway of an abandoned building on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury one recent night. It was late, cold and drizzling rain. The lights of oncoming cars drew her to the roadway. She stared at the lone male drivers, waving her hands vigorously in an attempt to slow them down. But they kept going. Her frail body was for sale, but there were no takers. Last year, there were few signs of prostitution here. In 1989, Capt. Bobby Johnson of the Area B-3 station in Mattapan said his units made only one arrest for prostitution. But since July, police arrested 50 women in the area for sol...
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