The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers, promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and said that its policy would not stop it from bringing other charges that stem from prostitution-related arrests.
That means, in effect, that the office will continue to prosecute pimps and sex traffickers as well as people who pay for sex,
continuing to fight those who exploit or
otherwise profit from prostitution without punishing the people who for decades have borne the brunt of law enforcement’s attention.
Manhattan will join Baltimore, Philadelphia and other jurisdictions that have declined to prosecute sex workers.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it would no longer prosecute prostitution and unlicensed massage, putting the weight of one of the most high-profile law enforcement offices in the United States behind the growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s...
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Note: I have had this philosophy for years. The system had it backwards, it incarcerated the exploited instead of those guilty of compelling the prostitution.