Posted on 04/27/2021 4:25:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
The district attorney of Manhattan in NYC has announced that his office will no longer prosecute any unlicensed "massage" parlor workers (about 900 cases), nor loitering for the purposes of prostitution (about 5,000 cases). Abigail Swenstein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Exploitation Intervention Project, which works with sex workers, said that while the policy doesn't preclude the New York Police Department making arrests, she hopes officers will choose not to, knowing that prosecutors would not bring charges. Laws against these behaviors are still on the books but will not be prosecuted. The citizenry has not repealed these laws, but the ever wise and dictatorial district attorney will spit in the face of the citizenry (and God) by deeming these activities unworthy of punishment.
This writer could find reference to only one person, New York Assemblyman Mike Reilly, a Republican, who said Manhattan's new prostitution policy sets a dangerous precedent. "It flies in the face of law and order," he timidly said. To me, the fact that there is not an outcry of opposition is as grievous as the decision itself.
This is but the latest in a list of repulsive changes in law enforcement made unilaterally by the D.A. Mr. Vance in his vulgar arrogance boasts that since 2010, he has cut the number of cases handled by his office in half by not prosecuting marijuana smoking and ownership, subway fare evasion, unlicensed vending, nonpayment of fines, loitering for prostitution, peaceful protests (read: looting, burning stores, dousing police with buckets of water and spitting on them). In short, he has retracted the policing practices that so improved the safety and quality of life in New York City begun under Rudy Giuliani's administration as mayor (1994–2001).
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Well, finally a story in the news that has a happy ending.
I see what you did there.
No, I have to towel the coffee off my screen
I see what you did there.
Back to the violent crack days of the 70’s.
NYC cycles through these periods until it reaches critical mass and even wealthy liberals start complaining. Then they elect a Republican so they can demand he fix the problems while complaining that he is doing so.
Thousands of politicians breathed a sigh of relief.
I still don’t want to visit.
Crime rates go down when you don’t prosecute anything. Amazing correlation.
NY replaces Bread and Circuses with Sex and drugs.
New York City needs to spread COVID somehow.
Vice cops hardest hit!
Hmmmm? Can they do the same with the Sullivan law violations? Uh, uh, don’t go there.
lol. Very, very clever ;D!
Liberals enabling sexual slavery. Gotta hand it to them their hypocrisy is consistent.
Have to keep Maxwell from testifying.
The more freezer money the hacks make large cities are a mecca for dealers pimps homeless and a Eden for felons oh well you get what you vote for.
Whatever the NYSlimes reports, it definitely does not include the nefarious and substantial effects of Soros funded DA’s or dem hack judges on ‘crime’ statistics or the hair brained conclusions of fellow travelers. Trickle down immortality has its effect.
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