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Boston Aims To Cut Prostitution By Targeting Customers

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Boston officials are aiming to cut prostitution by 20 percent in the next two years by targeting customers instead of prostitutes. The city is teaming up with Cambridge-based anti-human-trafficking group Demand Abolition to track people paying for sex.

Swanee Hunt, former U.S. ambassador to Austria and the head of Demand Abolition, joined WBUR's Morning Edition.

This segment aired on June 4, 2014.

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Bob Oakes was a senior correspondent in the WBUR newsroom, a role he took on in 2021 after nearly three decades hosting WBUR's Morning Edition.

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