NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown NYers Pay the Price

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-cops-cash-in-on-sex-trade-arrests-with-little-evidence-while-black-and-brown-new-yorkers-pay-the-price

Teams of NYPD officers have descended on minority neighborhoods, leaning into car windows and knocking on apartment doors, trying to get men and women to say the magic words: agreeing to exchange sex for money. These arrests are based almost entirely on the word of cops, who say they are incentivized to round up as many “bodies” as they can.

Some of their targets were selling sex to survive; others were minding their own business. Almost everyone arrested for these crimes in the last four years is nonwhite, a ProPublica data analysis shows: 89% of the 1,800 charged with prostitution; 93% of the 3,000 accused of trying to buy sex.

Of the dozens of cops, lawyers and other experts ProPublica interviewed for this story, not a single one believes arrest figures for patronizing a prostitute accurately reflect the racial makeup of those who buy sex in New York City.

“I know for a fact that white men are the key demographic,” said Meredith Dank, a research professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who, along with her colleagues, has interviewed more than 600 young people who trade sex in the city. In one study, 65% said their main clients are white.

[Dem4Life1102]

1. The NYPD needs to be reformed badly

After 9/11 it was forbidden to criticize them for many years. This just allowed many of their excesses to go unchecked.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. There are many interlocking issues described in the article that make reform unlikely.

[Me.]

7. THey Are A Law Unto Themselves

and their union leaders like Pat Lynch should be in jail themselves

[Happy Hoosier]

3. Not a fan of that line of work, but...

... we need to decriminalize it. Focus enforcement effort of human trafficking and force sexual servitude.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. What is decribed in the article is a result of focusing on human trafficking.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. Arresting Johns does not help in that respect. NT

[kcr]

8. It would if the NYPD were actually effective and efficient

Instead of the bloated and corrupt outfit it is.

[kcr]

6. What is described in the article is the whole reason

police need to be defunded.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. I say abolish 'em entirely.

[kcr]

10. After reading articles like this? I feel like I'm almost there.

The assholes interviewed in the article feeling like they were justified in putting away innocent people because, hey! They needed that sweet overtime because they had mortgage payments. So that made it okay.

[Polybius]

11. Entirely?

I had to call them last week. Without them, we'd break into anarchy.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Entirely.

[Polybius]

14. That's the most extreme thing I've ever read on DU

Imagine if that were Biden's position? Not sure if he even would have won California.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Good thing I'm not Biden.

[Polybius]

21. Yup

It's actually a popular position in Portland. Not so much anywhere else.

[Humanist_Activist]

22. Do you know why its a popular position in Portland?

You should look up the history of the Portland Police and Police Union, its very interesting.

[Polybius]

24. I thought it was because Portland is uber liberal

Look at the mayoral election. Sarah Iannarone, who wore a dress full of actual Communists a month before the election, came within 5 points of winning. She was winning up until that point, it was a blunder of epic proportions.

But I will look that up, I did not know the Portland history. Thank you.

[Humanist_Activist]

25. First elected president of their union was an actual Nazi. They haven't gotten much better.

Not hyperbole either, member of the American Bund, a Nazi funded German-American group.

On Edit: Check out the podcast "Behind the Bastards" especially their recent episodes on the worst police union and Portland.

[greenjar_01]

13. The NYPD is an extortion racket. It is completely out of control

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. An oppressive system cannot be reformed; imagining that it can be is upholding the status quo.

[greenjar_01]

17. Yes, everybody recognizes your point on this, endlessly repeated

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I do go on, don't I?

[greenjar_01]

19. Just a bit

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. As my tagline says...

Wait 'til I start on prison abolition!

[Humanist_Activist]

23. ACAB