POLICING SEX WORK“ [a sex worker] reported that mencame over and beat them withbats. The cops told them that theywouldn’ t help them until someonedied.” ENDNOTES- Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C.,Different AvenuesIn the case of two Eugene, Oregon policeofficers recently convicted of sexualassaulting, abusing or raping at least 15 womenover a six year period, early complaints, whichshould have alerted the department to theirconduct, were dismissed by both the officersinvolved and their supervisors as the“grumblings of prostitutes and junkies.” 211Spread Magazine, vol. 3 (3):48.2Kamala Kempadoo, "Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights," in Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition 2-4, Kamala Kempadoo and JoDoezema, eds., Routledge (1998). Although sex work and sex worker are commonly used terms, the terms “prostitute” and “whore” have also beenreclaimed and valorized by some sex workers.3Kamala Kempadoo, "Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights," in Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition 2-4, Kamala Kempadoo and JoDoezema, eds., Routledge (1998). Although sex work and sex worker are commonly used terms, the terms “prostitute” and “whore” have also beenreclaimed and valorized by some sex workers.4Kamala Kempadoo, "Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights," in Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition 2-4, Kamala Kempadoo and JoDoezema, eds., Routledge (1998).5See, e.g., Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C., Different Avenues, 2008; Sex Workers Project, Behind Closed Doors (New YorkCity: 2005); Sex Workers Project, Revolving Door: An Analysis of Street-Based Prostitution in New York City, (New York City: 2003); The SanFrancisco Task Force on Prostitution: Final Report, BAYSWAN, March 1996.6S. Bell, Reading, writing and rewriting the prostitute body 73, Indiana University Press (1994).7Jo Doezema, Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy, Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition34, Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds. Routledge (1998).8P. Alexander, Bathhouses & Brothels: Symbolic Sites in Discourse and Practice, in Policing Sex, Dangerous Bedfellows, eds., South End Press(1996).9P. Alexander, Bathhouses & Brothels: Symbolic Sites in Discourse and Practice, in Policing Sex, Dangerous Bedfellows, eds., South End Press(1996).10Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C. 8-9, Different Avenues, 2008; Amnesty International, Stonewalled: Police Abuse andMisconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S. 34-37, AMR 51/122/2005 (2005)11Amnesty International, Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S. 34, AMR51/122/2005 (2005)12Amnesty International, Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S. 13-18,AMR 51/122/2005 (2005)13The San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution: Final Report, BAYSWAN, March 1996.14Raphael Jody and Deborah L. Shapiro, “Sisters Speak Out: The Lives and Needs of Prostituted Women in Chicago,” Chicago Coalition for theHomeless, 2002 http://impactresearch.org/documents/sistersspeakout.pdf15Sex Workers Project, Behind Closed Doors (New York City: 2005); Sex Workers Project, Revolving Door: An Analysis of Street-BasedProstitution in New York City, (New York City: 2003).16Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C., Different Avenues, 2008.17Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C., Different Avenues, 2008; Amnesty International, Stonewalled: Police Abuse and MisconductAgainst Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S. 39, AMR 51/122/2005 (2005)18Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C. 54, Different Avenues, 2008.19Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C., Different Avenues, 2008.20See, e.g., Move Along: Policing Sex Work in Washington, D.C., Different Avenues, 2008.21Eugene, Oregon Settles Two Suits With Women Abused by Cops, Associated Press, August 12, 2005; C. Stephens, Magana Verdict, KVAL 13News, June 30, 2004; Trial Begins For Perverted Eugene Cop Roger Magana: Media is Shut Out, Portland Independent Media Center, June 4, 2004,http://www.publish.portland.indiymedia.org/en/2004/06/290053.shtml (last visited August 25, 2005); C. Stephens, Victim Speaks Out AboutPerverted Eugene Cop, KVAL 13 News, March 13, 2004; C. Stephens, Magana Records Revealed, KVAL 13 News, March 4, 2004; Four MoreWomen Accuse Eugene Officer of Abuse, KATU 2 News, December 11, 2003.Please visit www.incite-national.org for more info! P. 28
THE WAR ON DRUGS WHAT IS THE WAR ON DRUGS?Launched by Richard Nixon in 1971 when he declared drug abuse — and, by implication, drug users — “public enemyNo. 1.,” the U.S. government has been waging the “war on drugs” internationally and domestically — at thestate and federal level — for over 30 years. 1The term “war on drugs” has come to refer to a set of policies that include interdiction (stopping and searchingpeople who fit the “profile” of a drug user or courier) on the nation’s highways, buses, trains and planes, saturation ofparticular neighborhoods (almost entirely low-income communities of color) with law enforcement officers chargedwith finding drugs in any quantity through widespread “stop and frisk” activities, surveillance, undercover operations,and highly militarized drug “raids” conducted by “SWAT” teams, as well as mass incarceration of drug users andpunitive measures aimed at individuals with drug convictions. 2 WHO IS IMPACTED & HOW?In 1997, Danette Daniels, a pregnantblack woman, was arrested by NewJersey police officers for allegedlydealing drugs, and was shot to death bythe officers as she sat in a policesquad car. Witnesses deny thatDanette was involved in any drugtransaction at the time of her death. 3The racially disparate impacts of the “war on drugs” on “communitiesof color” have been widely documented. 4 What is less often discussedis the fact that these policies have disproportionately and specificallytargeted and impacted low-income women and transpeople of color,who are systematically profiled as drug users and couriers, andreceive long, mandatory sentences that have little relationship to theircircumstances. This puts them, their communities and families atgreater risk for violence at the hands of law enforcement and in thefoster care, prison, and mental health systems. 5 Women of color, whouse drugs at rates equal to or lower than those of white women 6 , aremore harshly affected by current drug laws and policies than any other group: Women of color are the fastest growing population of people being imprisoned for drug offenses — since 1986the number of women of color in prison has increased 800%, compared to a 400% increase for women of allraces. 7 In New York, women of color are 91% of those women sentenced to prison for drug crimes, although they makeup just 32% of the state’s female population. 8 Although Native Americans in Montana comprise only about 6 percent of the total state population, Nativewomen constitute approximately 25% of the female prison population. According to Professor Luana Ross, “[a]partial explanation for the increase in the female prison population is their incarceration for drug offenses.” 9Although many women are involved with the drug trade for the same reasons as their male counterparts, there areoften gender-specific circumstances at play. Many women and trans people of color living at the intersections ofmultiple forms of oppression are denied access to sustainable, non-criminalized means to support their family, and turnto street economies to survive. Many find themselves trapped in abusive, violent relationships with meninvolved in trafficking, or use controlled substances to medicate the emotional and physical symptoms of abuse. 10According to a recent study on female drug couriers, many women recounted being coerced into carrying drugs withthreats of violence and death. 11 Once involved, women are subject to criminal sanctions that far exceed their role inthe drug trade.Please visit www.incite-national.org for more info! P. 29
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