As we mentioned a few months ago, OKC is in the middle of a cultural renaissance when it comes to shaming local johns, prostitutes, and other sex industry workers; one that harkens back to the good old days of the 1990s when The Video Vigilante roamed our seedy streets and John TV filled our public access airwaves.
Over the past year, the OKCPD vice unit has conducted multiple large scale prostitution stings to round up drug-addicted sex workers and their desperate customers.
Although the operations won’t put a dent in the sex work trade, it does provide cops with some low-hanging fruit to pick, and give them the opportunity to work with their pals in the local media to humiliate people by flashing their mugshots across television, phone and computer screens.