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 The citizenry has not repealed these laws, but the ever wise and dictatorial district attorney will spit in the face of the citizenry (and God) by deeming these activities unworthy of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...........To Read More....
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