LA’s sex-slave strip is growing — and Sacramento let it happen: Gov candidate

Source: New York Post

A notorious 50-block stretch of South Los Angeles where prostitution unfolds in plain sight – and vulnerable girls, including minors, are trafficked night after night – has exploded into a central flashpoint in California’s 2026 governor’s race. The corridor, known on the street as “the Blade,” slices a roughly 3- to 4-mile path along South Figueroa Street between Imperial Highway and Gage Avenue — a bleak gauntlet of motels, liquor stores and auto shops that morphs into one of the region’s most brazen open-air sex markets after dark. 10 Two women, sex workers, interacting with a car at night on South Figueroa St.