I've given the Seattle Police Department's Vice unit plenty of grief over the years for frequently targeting prostitutes—particularly juvenile prostitutes—in sting operations, rather than going after the johns who create a market for selling sex in the first place.

Bus, as it turns out, the Vice unit has in fact been working to target johns, and arrested at least a half-dozen men in an operation in North Seattle last night.

Police could not immediately provide an exact count on the number of johns arrested in the sting, but jail booking records indicate police picked up at least a dozen men near Aurora last night.

Police had apparently received a number of complaints about prostitution from business owners in the area prior to the operation.

Tuesday night, police set up a similar sting at a motel near The Track—near the Seattle Center—where they arrested six female prostitutes and three male prostitutes.