COPS...IN SCHOOLS??!! ENDNOTES1Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Education, Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety-Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth 65-66, June 2006.2Fertig, Beth. “School Safety Agents Cause Tensions,” WNYC News, May 3, 2005.3 Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Education, Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety-Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth 65-66, 70, June 2006; Chino Hardin of Prison Moratorium Project, quotedin Elizabeth Hays, Students United to Rip Patrol, Want Cops out of Schools, New York Daily News, February 18,2004.4 Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Education, Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety-Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth 65-66, June 2006.5 Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) Hip Hip Audio Documentary, Rising Up From the Ashes:Chronicles of a Dropout (2006) Track 106 The Advancement Project, Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, March 2005.7 T. Johnson, J. Boyden, and W. Pittz, Racial Profiling and Punishment in U.S. Public Schools, Applied ResearchCenter 2001.8 Video Captures Police Handcuffing 5-year-old Girl, Associated Press, April 22, 2005; A Current Affair to Show5-year-old’s Arrest Today, http://www.acurrentaffair.com/daily/todayshow/index.html (last visited April 24, 2005).9 Carrión, Jr, Adolfo. Who’s in charge? A report on issues related to disputes over authority between the police andschool administrators in Bronx schools, Office of the Bronx Borough, July 2005.10 Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) 2007 Survey11Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Education, Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety-Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth 65-66, June 2006.12Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Education, Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety-Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth 40, June 2006.13Anne-Marie Cusac, The Trouble with Tasers, The Progressive, April 11, 2005. Between late 2003 and early 2005,at least 24 Central Florida elementary school students were shocked with TASERs by police officers placed in publicschools. Some of the students were as young as 12 years old. A typical scenario involved officers wading in througha crowd to break up a fight and using TASERs to “get them to move.” David Weber, Records: Cops Used TasersAgainst 24 Students Since 2003, Sun Sentinel, March 25, 2005.14Fox News LA, September 27, 2007; Ann Simmons, Mothers seek action from Palmdale school; They protest whentheir children are suspended after allegedly tussling with a security guard. Los Angeles Times September 29, 2007.15Police Taser 6 year-old Boy, CNN.com, November 13, 2004.16Deprived of Dignity: Degrading Treatment and Abusive Discipline in New York City and Los Angeles PublicSchools, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, 2007.Please visit www.incite-national.org for more info! P. 24
POLICING SEX WORKAs is the case with many women’s experiences of lawenforcement violence, police violence against sex workers is notperceived by mainstream organizations as either police brutalityor violence against women, when it is clearly a manifestation ofboth. WHO IS A SEX WORKER?“ When sex workers are beingexploited they face theadditional burden of havingnowhere to go for help,sometimes even within theirown communities.”- Ruby Corado, Latinos in Action 1The concept of “sex work” emerged in the 1970s through theprostitutes’ rights movement in the United States and Western Europe (although sex worker’s movements are notexclusive to the United States or Western Europe). The term emerged as a counterpoint to traditionally derogatorynames, to emphasize the legitimacy of sex work as a form of labor and the rights of sex workers as working people. 2“Sex worker” is a term used to refer to people who work in all aspects of the sex trades, indoor or street-based, legaland criminalized, and can include people who trade sex for money as well as safety, drugs, hormones, survival needslike food shelter or clothing, immigration status, or documentation. Although this gendered labor sector is beingredefined all over the world, the majority of sex workers are women. 3 Sex workers are mothers, daughters/sons,teachers, organizers, people — who experience high levels of violence due to the stigma, isolation, and invisibilityassociated with their work.Since prostitution/sex work is criminalized and highly stigmatized in many countries, individual sex workers andorganizations are exposed to high levels of harassment and violence by law enforcement agents and benefit from littleprotection from violence within their communities. Speaking out against the violence and finding or organizingsupport for sex workers can be dangerous. As a result, any participation in sex work — be it part-time, full-time, oreven temporary — entails a life on the margins. This is particularly true for sex workers of color and transgender andgender non-conforming sex workers, who live and work at the intersections of multiple forms of structural oppressionbased on gender, race, and class. 4 VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERSSex workers experience high levels of violence, regardless of the type of sex work they engage in. Sex workers areexposed to verbal abuse, physical assaults, sexual violence, and murder at the hands of law enforcement agents,customers, managers, fellow employees, family, friends, domestic partners, and neighborhood residents. Existinglaws that criminalize sex work often prevent workers from reporting violence, enable law enforcement agents to nottake violence against sex workers seriously when it is reported, and facilitate police violence against sex workers. 5African American sex workers on Chicago's West Side reported twelve to fifteen incidents ofphysical abuse by police officers in January and February 2004 alone. Typically, officers wouldpick women up, drive them several blocks away, beat them up, pull out their hair, threaten themwith arrest, confiscate their shoes, and leaving them stranded, saying “We’ll get you tomorrow.”Please visit www.incite-national.org for more info! P. 25
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