Breaking Rank Case

Prostitutes have been found to be 18 times more likely to be murdered than all other women! Also, their friends and associates are also reluctant to contact the authorities afterwards due to their fear of the police. That may be why the Long Island Serial Killer was so brazen as to taunt the sister of one of his victims by calling her after the attack with the victim’s cellphone. In response, a sex workers’ rights organization, the Red Umbrella Project, asked for amnesty for all of the area prostitutes until the killer was apprehended, in hopes that it would lead to more people coming forward with information. However, that clearly didn’t happen and those crimes are still unsolved. Likewise, a string of six drug-addicted prostitutes in Chillicothe,
He acknowledged overhearing different officers refer to murdered prostitutes as “misdemeanor murders.” Although, an irritated Stamper later wrote in his book, Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing, “I wonder how these officers of the law would respond to the murder of forty teachers? Forty homemakers? Forty ER nurses?” Stamper also states his case for decriminalizing indoor prostitution in the chapter, “Prostitution: Get a
The judge said that she didn’t considered it to be a rape case, rather it was a case of “theft of services.” The woman originally agreed to sex with two of the men for money. However, they then refused to pay, held a gun to her head, and forced her to have sex them and several other men. In short, Judge Deni felt that her case “minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped.” Deni’s judgment was “a throwback to the Middle Ages, when rape was a crime against property, not against a person,” responded Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project. Yes, this double standard has existed for many years in various cultures. For example, in 13th Century China the laws distinguished between the rape of a prostitute (50 demerits), a wife (500 demerits), and a widow or a virgin (1,000