Comments on: Cook County: Craigslist's 'erotic' section must go

The sheriff of Chicago's Cook County has plans to file suit against Craigslist. The Web's largest classifieds section has already said it plans to crack down on prostitution ads.

[DrStrangelove23]

Ah, Cook County. They have such respectable leadership there! I think they may want to stop throwing stones in glass houses. And certainly no cops have ever used much less MARRIED prostitutes!! Maybe they should just have their city / county / state removed entirely and let communities police themselves as he obviously if there is illegal prostitution going on, some cop is not doing their job! I better hurry up and finish this comment before the plug gets pulled and can't find me some booty! But then again, I live in a state where it IS legal in two counties and have an area downtown where there is plenty of said illegal activity which goes un-policed! Hmm. Can the People sue the police back for tax money that was spent on them NOT doing their job?

[nomad0001]

Actually we need a law to ban STUPID Sheriffs. How would he like it if we banned Bibles and Churches because of all the priests that sexually abused minors?

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[paulej]

The sheriff must be nuts. After telling about all of the horrific things that occurred and how they arrested all of these people doing illegal things, he then wants to blame Cragislist for being the bad guy? Sounds to me like Craiglist provided a valuable service to the police! The sheriff 's department should be paying Craiglist for making their jobs so much easier!

[crsteele]

Sheriff Tom Dart, obviously lives in a county with zero crime except prostitution. No rapes, no murders, no car stealing, nothing, or his focus on persecuting the giving of pleasure shows him to be the retarded jackass we have come to expect from the less than impressive "law officers" enforcing laws written by cretins, morons and moralistic puritan *****.

This puritan dumass should move to Saudi Arabia, he would love it . They have all the kinds of primitive and barbaric religious stupidity he wants to bring here. He would be in his element repressing women and he could even stone people that don't agree with his stupidity. Jackass's like this fool should be fired and deported for being terminally stupid.

Hopefully a victim of a real crime will sue this loser for dereliction of duty and his sorry ass can end up in a soup line.

[littleM]

Great PR move, go easy on the Daley Machine and be tough on California. He should run for Governor of Illinois. Maybe he could get endorsements from former Governors Blagojevich and Spitzer, who were also great at PR.

[fasteddie452]

Sorry TOM,butt what your trying to stop has bin around longer that the wheel ! Please don't kill the messenger! crags list help's way more than it hurt's. Get off the soap box,this country's false morality has held us back more than it helps. Pick on those who allowed the greatest country in our world to go to poop.

[maxonm]

As a Resident of cook county and the state of illinois, I am embarrased for the people of the state and county. corruption is rampant and the standand for the state.

The county of Cook cannot police itself and as a result must try to get laws passed at a higher level to pass blame to somewhere else

The county has the highest sales tax (10%) and the highest crime rate, yet has the toughest gun laws in the US.

The state has had 50% of it's last four governers in jail,

We had our last governer impeached

We have a Senate Member appointed by questionable means

I can only imagine what will come out about President O'Bama one the press honeymoon is over and the investigations start. (If there is still a freedome of the press or a press.

so rest of the country, to you I say .. Sorry Dudes...

[ciggieoxo]

It is called the world's oldest profession. The sheriff of Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago is foolish if he thinks he can make it go away.

Craig's List or no Craig's List not one prostitute would go "out of business"; they may go back to arranging tricks the old fashioned ways or who knows what other online source they may choose, but in thousands of years of history no one has ever stopped prostitution.

When New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his Police chase prostitution out of Times Square in Manhattan it just moved to another part of the City.

The same would be true of Chicago, if the Sheriff chases away prostitutes from one part of Chicago, they would simply move their base of operations from that one part of Chicago to another part of Chicago.

[ciggieoxo]

It is called the world's oldest profession. The sheriff of Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago is foolish if he thinks he can make it go away.

Craig's List or no Craig's List not one prostitute would go "out of business"; they may go back to arranging tricks the old fashioned ways or who knows what other online source they may choose, but in thousands of years of history no one has ever stopped prostitution.

When New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his Police chase prostitution out of Times Square in Manhattan it just moved to another part of the City.

The same would be true of Chicago, if the Sheriff chases away prostitutes from one part of Chicago, they would simply move their base of operations from that one part of Chicago to another part of Chicago.

[BraveNewWolrd]

Yeah, I say the citizens of this County sue the Sheriff for failing to rid the county of this GOD AWFUL crime wave....This jack off can't do his job----he's sitting on a MOUNTAIN OF LEADS to follow up on....why can't he make arrests?

WOW---NOVEL IDEA_---he goes out, does his job in his county (ie setting up stings to bust Johns and or reply to Illegal ads---and they'll go away....

but then again, that requires this Sheriff actually do HIS JOB...which nobody in this F'd up Country of ours wants to do anymore---it's always "blame someone else"

[tysteel]

I don't why they are wasting their time in shutting down craigslist. Don't these people understand that if they take down craigslist, then they will simply advertise to other sites? Craigslist isn't the only game in town. I personally like to check out sites where there are both ads and reviews such as http://fairplayreviews.com and http://ahc.com