Let them get on with the business of arresting the thieves and prostitutes of this city.

The law permitted the police to arrest suspected prostitutes to be submitted for examination for venereal disease.

Almost the entire centre of Munich is Sperrbezirk, and under-cover police have posed as clients to arrest prostitutes.

Officers regularly arrest prostitutes for loitering for the purpose of prostitution.

Instead of arresting prostitutes, she says, we should be using the antislavery 13th Amendment to fight pimps.

The legislation allowed police officers to arrest prostitutes in certain ports and army towns, and the women were then subjected to compulsory checks for venereal disease.

Data was submitted that demonstrated selective prosecution, as the Providence Police were arresting female prostitutes far more often than the male customers.

Treatment was not always voluntary: in the second half of the 19th century, the Contagious Diseases Act was used to arrest suspected prostitutes.

Eventually, the passage of the 'Contagious Diseases Act' in 1864 allowed policemen to arrest prostitutes and detain them in hospital.