Part of that may be due to the police department’s community outreach efforts on the issue. “It is much better than it used to be,” Fernandez said. On Friday, only one “personal ad” could be found at the men’s room at Rec Park. The city is also diligent about cleaning up sexually-charged graffiti inside the rest rooms, which used to be littered with people’s phone numbers and lewd suggestions. Which may be why the city has remodeled the restroom at the end of Ocean Boulevard at 72nd Place to include individual, self-contained locking stalls. “But in reality it had the opposite effect.” “I think, initially, when they were designed these kind of restrooms they thought having everything more open would mean people would be less inclined to engage in illegal behavior,” Fernandez said. There are no doors and, in some cases, no dividers. Many have urinals in open view of stalls. The restrooms they favor offer little to no privacy. Fernandez said he has never seen a woman cruising alone. Though there may be no one out on the sand or the grass, there will be a cluster of cars with a single male in the driver’s seat, usually with the passenger window down and within direct sight of a restroom.Ĭruisers are almost always men, though sometimes they are couples. In each area one can see obvious signs of “cruising” no matter the day or time, Fernandez pointed out.

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