Meet My Friend and Author, Joseph B. Haggerty Sr.
(I met Joe at a PSWA conference a few years back, and we've been friends every since. He's a most interesting guy and the author of novels: Shame: The Story of a Pimp, and An Ocean in the Desert. He also contributed to the PSWA anthology, Felons, Flames and Ambulance Rides. He's an award winning poet, writer and lecturer on the sexual exploitation of women and children in prostitution and pornography.) From the pen of Joseph B. Haggerty Sr. I am a retired vice detective from the Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C. I did 35 years with the department. Most of my vice years was devoted to investigating and arresting pimps/child predators. Through that endeavor I learned a great deal about the prostitution culture and firmly believe that the women involved in prostitution are more victims than criminals with a relatively high percentage of them victims of sexual molestation as children. In my latter years with the department I was...