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More than 40% of NYC’s income goes to Mayor Bloomberg and the rest of the 1%.
New York isn't the only place where cops can use condom possession to justify arrest, but sex worker advocates there are pushing a new bill
Among New York’s most contradictory sets of policies is this: Since 1971, the city has pushed aggressively for condom use, distributing more than 200 million free condoms, turning the NYC condom into an icon with its own tag line (NYC Condom: Get some!), even creating an iPhone application that helps users locate the nearest distribution site. In the same time frame, however, city police have destroyed or confiscated thousands of condoms found in the possession of suspected sex workers, using condom possession to justify arrest.
Sex workers and their advocates say this practice has had a dangerous, chilling effect, causing many who engage in prostitution to stop carrying and using condoms. A bill written by State Senator Velmanette Montgomery would change that, barring the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution in criminal cases.
Yes, you read that correctly! Someone using protection in a sex act could be arrested for condom possession. Not marijuana possession, not sex toy possession, but condom possession!!
So, basically the New York Police Department is condemning protection during sex? When did they turn into Rick Santorum?
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JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,” and other tech resources. But the donation was given starting late last year and was completed by spring 2011, so it was obviously not made in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. At the time, Commissioner Ray Kelly sent JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon a note expressing his “profound gratitude” for the donation, and a company-written news item about the gift described it as “unprecedented” in size.
Justin Elliot, “The NYPD, now sponsored by Wall Street”
A consequence of cutting funds to services like the police is that private entities move in to fill the vacuum left by public funds. Now which would you rather have paying the salaries of the NYPD: taxpayers or JPMorgan?
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^^An excellent question to all free-market capitalists.
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