Police: If You’re Carrying Condoms, You Might Be a Hooker

Feb 20, 2014
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Imagine a city that passes out condoms for free and busts people who carry condoms. That’s what seems to be happening in New Orleans, where the city’s health department doles out protection while the city’s police department doles out harassment.

According to “In Harm’s Way,” a recent report from Human Rights Watch, sex workers and those suspected of engaging in sex work report that cops use the possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution. (Similar police practices have been documented in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.)

The watchdog organization suggests that condom crackdowns, along with vague loitering laws and bans on the non-medical sale and distribution of syringes, may help explain why New Orleans’ rate of new HIV/AIDS infection is the third-highest in the nation.

Cleo, a 36-year-old woman, claims officers’ reach extends beyond the streets. “In the French Quarter [in March 2013],” she says, “I was at [a bar] with a man and the cops asked only the trans women to go outside and they searched us. If we had condoms we got arrested for attempted solicitation.”

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However, the New Orleans Police Department takes issue with the report. “NOPD does not arrest individuals for carrying condoms, as possession of condoms is not a crime,” says a police department spokesperson, who goes on to admit that carrying condoms, “can–by law–be considered evidence” of prostitution.

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Ernest Greene
Ernest Greene
10 years ago

Again, every attempt to suppress sex workers’ rights has the same outcome – danger and misery for women who make their livings in sex commerce. You’d think NOLA, which has a long, rich history of legal prostitution as well as a more recent and regrettable history of attempting to enforce an unworkable prohibition, would understand the benefits to all of encouraging sex workers to have and use condoms but, as usual, the fools prevail.

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