The NYPD should not be arresting people for sex work, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. “To the question of whether sex workers should be arrested, my broad answer is no,” he said when asked about the 2017 arrest of Layleen Polanco, the transgender woman who later died two years later from a seizure in solitary confinment at Rikers Island.
An undercover police officer said in a criminal complaint that Polanco agreed to engage in prostitution and alleged that he found a drug pipe in her pants pocket.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office referred the case to a special court for people it deems human trafficking victims. But charges were not dismissed because Polanco missed court appearances.
The unresolved case ultimately kept her locked up on Rikers Island from April 2019 until her death there that June in a solitary cell while held on $500 bail. She was 27.
Sex Workers Should Not be Arrested, de Blasio Declares, Invoking Layleen Polanco’s Legacy
- by: Rosa Goldensohn
- 2020-09-02
- Source:
LOVE for NEW YORK
- 09/03/2020
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