Quotes from Leslie Ann Jeffrey

The epidemic of violence against sex workers would be a national emergency if any other group were involved; but sex workers, particularly those who are working on the street and may have addictions or be radicalized, have not been the object of any great concern.

If the media were doing their investigative job properly, the net of deviants would either be widened or abandoned altogether as ludicrous, as more and more of society's members - more and more members of the public - would be implicated in the tracing of this net. To single out sex workers serves a specific function: it removes the "disciplinary gaze" from all others.