Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution ASL Patriot Broadcast

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution
The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., moved to dismiss thousands of cases dating back decades, amid a growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s approach to prostitution. The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday that it would no longer prosecute prostitution and unlicensed massage. New York is now one of the most high-profile law enforcement offices in the United States behind the growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s approach to sex work. They asked a judge on Wednesday morning to dismiss 914 open cases involving prostitution and unlicensed massage, along with 5,080 cases in which the charge was loitering for the purposes of prostitution. The law that made the loitering charge a crime, was  repealed by New York State in February. The announcement represents a shift in the Manhattan district attorney’s approach to prostitution. Many of the cases they want to dismiss are dated to the 1970s and 1980s. That was when New York waged a war against prostitution in an effort to clean up its image as a center of sex and drug city. The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and said that its policy would not stop it from bringing other charges that happens 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. Sex workers have been fighting for decriminalization for decades. But the 2019 formation of Decrim NY, a coalition of organizations that support full decriminalization and have worked to lobby lawmakers, represented a turning point for the movement. With the upcoming elections in their area, they are talking about making sex workers legal.  The majority have said that they would halt the prosecutions if elected. One, Eliza Orlins, a candidate for the office and a former public defender went on to say, “Am I glad that someone in a position as powerful as the Manhattan district attorney’s office is finally speaking out and saying that we shouldn’t be prosecuting people for engaging in their jobs? Of course I’m glad.” Will the shift continue to spread across America? It already has in, according to this article,  Baltimore, and Philadelphia and that have declined to prosecute sex workers. Brooklyn also does not prosecute people arrested for prostitution, but instead refers them to social services. Will we start seeing more cities allow more prostitution? We shall see…
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