Unbelievable.
Jan. 20th, 2010 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kutsuwamushiIt's hard to imagine the mindset of law enforcement that would do this:
If I adopt that view, then it makes sense that the majority of people convicted under this law are non-white, poor women. The person with the most privilege in the exchange--the john--escapes without charges.
Ignoring the fact that this is wrong, it doesn't even make sense from a practical standpoint: This will only make it harder for prostitutes to find housing and work, further narrowing their already narrow opportunities and trapping them in the sex work that law enforcement supposedly wants to stop.
Tabitha has been working as a prostitute in New Orleans since she was 13. Now 30 years old, she can often be found working on a corner just outside of the French Quarter. [...] New Orleans city police and the district attorney’s office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex workers like Tabitha as sex offenders.The only way I can wrap my head around it is to imagine them as full of contempt for sex workers; they think they're so low that they don't deserve fairness or empathy. They deserve to be treated like child molesters, even though many of them started sex work while children themselves.
If I adopt that view, then it makes sense that the majority of people convicted under this law are non-white, poor women. The person with the most privilege in the exchange--the john--escapes without charges.
Ignoring the fact that this is wrong, it doesn't even make sense from a practical standpoint: This will only make it harder for prostitutes to find housing and work, further narrowing their already narrow opportunities and trapping them in the sex work that law enforcement supposedly wants to stop.
