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For decades, civil rights and criminal justice advocates have argued that the law exposed transgender women of color, particularly, to discriminatory policing and harassment.https://bit.ly/2O59uwI
Police could arrest any person on the street, sidewalk, park or subway for repeatedly attempting to engage people in conversation — as long as the police officer read those actions as “intent to engage in prostitution.”https://bit.ly/2O59uwI
According to the bill, officers have warned trans people that they would “be arrested if they were seen outside after midnight.” One officer testified that he was trained to identify prostitutes by looking for “Adam’s apples, big hands and big feet.”https://bit.ly/2O59uwI
Lawmakers at the time justified the law by citing rampant street crime, prostitution and other “maladies” in New York.https://bit.ly/2O59uwI
According to @HRC, there was a 120 percent increase in arrests under the statute in 2018.
More than 90 percent of those arrested were Black or Latinx people, and 80 percent identified as women, according to the advocacy group.https://bit.ly/2O59uwI
The repeal also seals the records of anyone who has been convicted of the offense.
“Thousands of New Yorkers have been irreparably harmed by false arrests, profiling and abuse that undermine their access to housing, education and employment,” said @NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman.
“The ways women of color present themselves should never be policed, criminalized or result in an arrest or criminal record.”
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