Several years ago the police assisted massage parlor owners to protect them from gang activity. According to one report, a few years ago police abandoned that program. Contrary to the smears and the inaccurate portrayals of these personal service businesses, the majority of massage parlors are owned by women. Employees report very favorable environments, unlike the strip clubs where workers accuse management of serious abuses and have won suits against management for sexual harassment and other unfair practices. Massage parlor workers are not necessarily prostitutes.
Some parlors are very strict about allowing no prostitution.
Police may find one woman who will be entrapped into providing these services, but they usually proceed to cite and arrest everyone on the premises. A conservative estimate of the prostitution abatement budget is ten million a year. These police priorities fly in the face of public opinion in San Francisco which is opposed to enforcement of laws against victimless crimes. In order to enforce prostitution laws police pretend to be clients. Recently one woman gave an officer a massage and hand job for forty-five minutes before busting her.