Anti-Gang Injunctions have been used for over a decade in Los Angeles to drive street gangs away from crime-infested neighborhoods. The city is now seeking to expand these injunctions to include drug dealers as reported in this AP story. The injunctions would focus on the city's skid row district, which accounts for 20% of the local drug trade.

Prostitution could become a federal crime if Congress reauthorizes the federal human trafficking statute adopted eight years ago. A provision added to the statute would add prostitution to the other crimes in the measure according to this Washington Post story. The Justice Department is opposing the change.