New York City in the United States every year to spend more than a million dollars to free condoms in order to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases , including the fight against HIV / AIDS . However , at the same time the city police are allowed to make condoms as evidence of prostitution crimes .
The second contradiction to the fact that the background of the latest proposed legislation in New York that push the state became the first region prohibit condoms as evidence in prostitution cases . The use of condoms as evidence of prostitution cases already widespread among police and assessed during the last decade related to undermine public health efforts .
"Maybe there is no actual evidence and a condom is the only way they ( the police ) to try to prove it , " said Hawk Kinkaid , a former male escort who is now a lawyer for the workers in his old profession in New York City . " This fear will be used against you , preventing people protect themselves . "
Practice makes condoms as evidence of prostitution cases , has invited criticism from across the United States . However , Attorney in San Francisco , Brooklyn , and Nassau County on the outskirts of New York City , announced last year will no longer use it as proof rubber prostitution case .
Nassau County Attorney Kathleen Rice said he decided the benefits of condoms as evidence did not outweigh the impact on public health . Most cases of prostitution , he said , did not go into the courtroom . As for the cases of human trafficking in general need evidence that much larger than the condom .
" Sex workers are more likely to be victims of them are criminals and evidence of condoms rarely give any value to the prosecution , " said Rice . "If you get all that quickness of condoms as evidence against human trafficking case , then you actually do not have a good case . "
Legislation to abolish the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution crude so far . New York Police Department ( NYPD ) reveal that an average of 2,500 cases of prostitution in the area , the plan outright reject the legislation .
In 2010 , research by the Department of Health of New York City with 60 sex workers as respondents , found that the police had seized more than half of them use condoms . One-third of respondents said they sometimes deliberately not carry condoms for fear of getting into trouble .
Two years later , human rights monitoring group interviewed 197 sex workers in New York , Washington , District of Columbia , Los Angeles , and San Francisco . The result , they found that the respondent was admitted to restrict the number of condoms they carry or even not carry condoms at all for fear of the police .
One respondent , sex workers in Los Angeles are identified as Carol F , said that there are certain times he was forced to use a plastic bag instead of a condom for fear of being arrested by the police .
" The police said , ' You bring all these condoms for what ? We catch you ' , " said another respondent , Pam G from Brooklyn . " It happens all the time . Deapan I may bring condoms . Yet if they have three or four condoms you brought , they will arrest you . "
A Stark of healthcare organizations in the Bronx admitted that he had seen the police arresting sex workers are caught carrying condoms . " These people need condoms . , I say , " Take it. Take as many as you need, "he said .
In the past year , the lower house of the New York Senate approved a bill to strengthen and optimistic at this month's meeting . NYPD , Friday ( 25/04/2014 ) , said it is reviewing the draft regulation .
In Washington , a rumor spread that the police will arrest anyone who brings more than three condoms . Lawyers and among transgender sex workers with law enforcement officials immediately dismissed this rumor makes socialization . Through the cards are distributed , they convey brings more than three condoms is not a crime . " There is no rule of three condoms , " written in the cards .
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