Thanks for asking that question.
To begin, I'll just point to the research I had pointed out that just was done with the sex workers in the Downtown Eastside, regarding the Vancouver police's decision to focus more on the clients.
They did note there was a slightly improved relationship between the sex workers and the police, which is something that was a positive, but the major problem that continued was that sex workers still didn't have enough trust in police. When police were running by, they would be trying to evade them because this was moving their business, because they would end up in much more isolated areas, and would still end up....
If a sex worker gets into a car with a client and is negotiating with him, the police will still intercept at that moment. So at the same time, again, when the client-sex worker interaction is criminalized, it still creates an adversarial relationship. It is a step that we can see is actually being taken away now by this new law project, for sex workers to not be arrested, and now it seems as if they will be again, with full impunity and with all the effects of harm and danger that will result from that.
That's just it. Because of the effects of criminalizing sex workers' clients on the street, it still causes a displacement, and displacement has been found time and time again to be, really, one of the major causes of violence that we see enacted on sex workers in the street.