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However well-intentioned law-enforcement strategies might be, they have been engineered with little attention to the wants and needs of sex workers — and to the violence many of them have faced from government employees…A study in Illinois found that police account for 30 percent of all reported abuse, compared with just 4 percent arising from pimps…The best law-enforcement strategy to prevent trafficking into forced prostitution is not an end-demand campaign that harms current sex workers. What’s needed instead is a commitment to seriously investigate and prosecute traffickers and impose harsh punishment on those who rape and assault sex workers….But law enforcement is only one part of the solution….ending demand for prostitution is not the answer; satisfying the demand for basic social services is.
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A Misguided Moral Crusade By Noy Thruplaew, The New York Times
- It’s nice to see a sensible piece about trafficking in the mainstream press.
