1970 SPECIAL REPORT: "SEATTLE PROSTITUTION"

Like all sizeable American cities, Seattle since its earliest days has attracted its share of prostitution, gambling, illegal drug and liquor sales, and a variety of other behaviors and activities that at various times in various places have been criminalized as “vice.” Not all vice crimes are highly lucrative, but those that are have proven extremely difficult to control, far less prevent. Crimes related to gambling and commercialized sex (including pornography) are particularly stubborn, and those who profit from them, some greatly, have the motive, means, and often the opportunity to corrupt the agencies of government whose job it is to oppose them. An insidious system of bribery and graft began early in Seattle’s history, and through the decades became progressively more sophisticated, widespread, and entrenched. It infected law enforcement of all ranks, some politicians, and agencies of local government. Street vice begot official vice, and it was not until the late 1960s that a long-complacent Seattle media, a few honest cops, federal prosecutors, and a group of mostly Republican political reformers ripped the veil from the system and brought to light the magnitude and pervasiveness of the Emerald City’s corruption.

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