In 1989, in the town of Babylon alone there had been over 200 prostitution arrests by late November. Crack began encroaching into the suburbs in 1987 and that year there were 125 arrests. In Suffolk County's five westernmost towns, there were 17 arrests for prostitution in 1984. Other Nassau County areas where streetwalkers are a common sight are Roosevelt, Inwood and New Cassel. Sergeant Perry noted that those numbers do not include any of the arrests made in what he refers to as ''Nassau's hotbeds of prostitution, the villages of Hempstead and Freeport.'' Arrests made there are handled by local village police departments. In the same period in 1989 there were 132 arrests. Darius Perry, made 44 arrests for prostitution in the first five months of 1988. The Nassau County Vice Squad, under the command of Det. As much as they earn, they spend it almost immediately on drugs. These girls are on the street night and day, developing their own clientele. ''And there are no pimps involved anymore,'' the lieutenant continued. You never saw a streetwalker like on 10th Avenue in Manhattan.'' Officials in both counties say that during the last three years, the number of women walking the streets has increased by a third to half. ''Before this it was organized rings operating out of cars and in houses. James Maher, head of the Suffolk Police Narcotics Enforcement Team. Then they have sex with customers in their cars, parked in secluded corners of parking lots. While yesterday's call girls worked with a fair degree of discretion and usually behind closed doors, today's genre are freewheeling streetwalkers who flag down cars by lifting their miniskirts still higher and smiling or sticking their tongues out at commuters leaving railroad stations. They are almost all addicted to crack they are for the most part freelance entrepreneurs who work without pimps, and they are part of what is believed to be the greatest number of women ever to ply the sex trade on the Island. YOUNG, old, black, white or Hispanic, Long Island's new types of prostitutes share several common bonds.
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