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Well still arrest you but we aren’t going to prosecute you ...great...really wonderful representation of our justice systems focus on arresting people for lite

• pcbro141 6y ago
  They will prosecute sex workers' clients. They just won't arrest/prosecute the sex workers.
• waterhouse 6y ago
  I was going to say "No, the quoted portion says they'll arrest the johns, not the prostitutes." However, looking at the article, it says: The Manhattan District Attorney Office's previous policy was to dismiss prostitution cases after the charged individual completed five counseling sessions with service providers. Going forward, it said its Human Trafficking Response Unit will file paperwork to decline formally to prosecute, and to inform the person arrested about purely voluntary services. The text of the new policy notes it does not preclude officials from bringing "other charges that may stem from a prostitution-related arrest." Which sounds like they will still be doing the arresting of prostitutes, so I think you're actually right...
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  • throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    >The Manhattan District Attorney Office's previous policy was to dismiss prostitution cases after the charged individual completed five counseling sessions with service providers All the perverse money-printer incentives of running a traffic school combined with the socially stigmatized customers you get when running an ankle monitor service. I'm sure the people that own the businesses offering those counseling services will be upstanding citizens of great moral character and the people referred to these businesses will have fair and honest business transactions with them (obvious sarcasm should be obvious).
    • avs733 6y ago
      Commoditization of criminal justice.
    • FpUser 6y ago
      Fucking racketeers. Mafia must be jealous.
      • dang 6y ago
        "Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        • FpUser 6y ago
          I am not yelling. Just calmly expressing what I think they are. It is hard for me to call asshole a person with less positive attitude.
          • dang 6y ago
            Denunciatory rhetoric makes for less interesting internet discussion and so is off topic here.
            • FpUser 6y ago
              I can definitely see that when they are discussing countries that the US is not on friendly terms with.
              • dang 6y ago
                I'm afraid I don't understand this comment, but I can tell you that doesn't have anything to do with how we moderate HN. It's much simpler than that.
• PeterisP 6y ago
  DA's don't decide who gets arrested, that's on the police chief; they can decide on pressing charges or not.