The people, through their elected representatives, have directed that criminal sanctions should be imposed against certain behavior and activities traditionally labeled as vice and which if left unchecked, affect quality of life and inevitably become dominated by organized criminal elements. The department is committed to the enforcement of all criminal statutes, including those defined as vice offenses. Situations where vice or conditions which foster vice, are allowed to continue are soon exploited by organized crime and money generated by vice activities are often used to finance other criminal ventures. To prevent the spread of vice conditions and its attendant invitation to organized crime, the department will take aggressive enforcement action against all commercialized vice activities, complaints of vice activity and conspicuous vice conditions that appear on the streets and in the public places of the city.
Updated February 1, 2019