Western Avenue, at the edge of the Larchmont neighborhood. (Dania Maxwell / L.A. Material)
THE FIRST TIME SHEILA HOYER saw a sex worker in her Windsor Square neighborhood, she assumed the woman, decked in platform heels and a skimpy skirt, must be an actress shooting a production nearby.
“She was out of central casting,” Hoyer recalled.
But there was no movie. And Hoyer now knows what’s really happening in her neighborhood: a robust nightly sex trade that neighbors say has grown more intense — and more dangerous and disturbing — due, in part, to actions of Los Angeles City officials.
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