Sam Adams has made the child sex issue one of his top priorities.
The police are villified in Portland. Sex workers are glorified.

Man, there are a lot of things wrong with that ABC article, in my opinion.

It does the worst kind of coverage of sex trafficking, which is too linger for long paragraphs juicy, graphic details and doesn't get at all into the larger social issues at hand (like poverty, lack of prostitution-specific social services, lack of social services in general, instead focusing blame solely on parents and strip clubs.

Plus it's damn lazy. It mentions that Portland is in need of more human trafficking shelters, but doesn't mention that Portland just secured money to build exactly that. It's an ongoing issue, not a scintillating new one.

Final note of laziness (and now I feel like a troll): it says one of the girls was picked up on Portland's subway system. Portland doesn't have a subway system, ABC. Light rail vs. subway, get it right or pay the price.

@ Mirk there are Subways all over town but when you need to pick up an underage ho I recomend the malls.