Picked up a prostitute on Aurora Ave? Did you drive into our neighborhood? We've probably got your license plate.

If you picked up a prostitute on Aurora Avenue in Seattle, you've participated in a crime that has decimated the North Seattle neighborhoods of Bitter Lake, Greenwood, and others adjacent to Aurora Ave Seattle.

Thanks to misguided changes to federal laws, as well as the knee-jerk removal of the Prostitution Loitering statute, Aurora Avenue has become the sex tourism capital of the West Coast.

We've seen victims as young as 13 on our corners, often trafficked from other regions in Washington, as well as Oregon and California. These prostitutes have pimps, that have claimed our neighborhood as their turf, battling each other for territory. They fire automatic weapons at each other from their vehicles, terrifying the families that call these streets home.

We have the bullet holes in our homes to prove it.

So if you came from your neighborhood to ours, picked up a prostitute, and parked in one of our streets or alleys to have sex outside of our homes, we've probably got your plate.

And we'd like to share.