Should Taxi Drivers Be Fined for Aiding Prostitutes?
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2012/06/27 13:00:00
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New York City cabbies will be a lot more reluctant to transport sex workers now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed a new bill that will heavily penalize the act. According to The Frisky, the harsh penalties won't hit until the second offense -- then they hit hard. The second time a NYC taxi driver is convicted of knowingly transporting a prostitute, it's a whopping $10,000 fine.
However, there are some rather obvious catches. Cabbies cannot be expected to make a judgment call based on appearance, so it will probably be difficult for law enforcement to make a case against the drivers. For that reason, critics of the law are concerned that it will force drivers to discriminate against anyone they feel might possibly be a prostitute. Do you think the law is fair?
However, there are some rather obvious catches. Cabbies cannot be expected to make a judgment call based on appearance, so it will probably be difficult for law enforcement to make a case against the drivers. For that reason, critics of the law are concerned that it will force drivers to discriminate against anyone they feel might possibly be a prostitute. Do you think the law is fair?
Top Opinion
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Blonde Rebellion 2012/06/27 14:19:03
Woman: Why how dare you! I"m a law abiding woman, normal woman I AM NOT A PROSTITUTE!!!
Cabbie: Oh. Oops.
We're talking about people trying to make a living, both cabbies and sex workers. Back off, or get ready to support these people yourself.
But hey, prostitutes are still human beings, so they deserve the same rights as everyone else does!
days I've observed many more hookers dressed in professional office attire and less in the
traditional hooker gear consisting of the hyper short shorts, tight revealing midriff bareing
tops and "kitten" shoes. I suppose that hookers may be leaning towards a little more
conservetive gear in order to circumvent the vice cops. More of the leg bareing short
shorts, mini skirts, and midriff bareing tops are more likely to be seen cladding teenagers
and normal non-prostitute young and middle age adults than on hookers nowdays. How
is a cab driver going to be able to know the difference between a prostitute and a legal,
legitimate non-prostitute in this day and age? Once upon a time, a cabbie could have
easily deciphered all of the harlots from the law abiding ladies simply by their appearence
alone. However, times have changed as the years have gone by, and a judgement by
dress, makeup, jewlery, grooming, etc., alone is just too vague to cite a cabbie for trans-porting a prostitute. Besides most cabbies are not accountable or responsible for most of
these people becomming prostitutes to begin with. Most of them don't deserve to be held
as such. "His Honor", the Mayor is barking up the wrong tree, as he has been known to
do for the majority of his time in that office.
They're people who probably also need to get places.
Also, the law is stupidly designed.
Prohibition ended decades ago. What do people learned from Prohibition?
You reasoned that “prostitution shouldn't even be illegal”, what about marijuana, cocaine, and others?
With some exception your leaders have legalized same sex marriage, taking risk in the probability of their wives turning into salt pillars; yet, prostitution is still illegal.
Prohibition taught us that making stuff illegal just makes it go underground and dangerous.
If prostitution was regulated, there would be fewer STDs, less violence, etc.
I'm undecided on certain drugs, due to conflicting data.
Neither are more or less likely than the other to cause a disaster. Two men falling in love and getting married isn't going to turn someone into a salt pillar any more than someone getting paid to have sex will cause an asteroid to smack into the face of the earth.
The origin of the drive for drugs is in its demand, not its materials. There are, after all, plenty of people who have easy access to lots of pharmaceuticals, and it never even crosses their mind to try them. And then you have people who don't have easy access to them, but crave them as though their life depends on it. The "cure" for drug abuse, in my mind, is to take away the driving force, the motivation for the craving.
I think that if we improved standards of living, etc. fewer people would turn to drugs. People seem to often use drugs as an escape from real life-- not the occasio...
Neither are more or less likely than the other to cause a disaster. Two men falling in love and getting married isn't going to turn someone into a salt pillar any more than someone getting paid to have sex will cause an asteroid to smack into the face of the earth.
The origin of the drive for drugs is in its demand, not its materials. There are, after all, plenty of people who have easy access to lots of pharmaceuticals, and it never even crosses their mind to try them. And then you have people who don't have easy access to them, but crave them as though their life depends on it. The "cure" for drug abuse, in my mind, is to take away the driving force, the motivation for the craving.
I think that if we improved standards of living, etc. fewer people would turn to drugs. People seem to often use drugs as an escape from real life-- not the occasional users, but the addicts-- as an alternative source of comfort that is usually provided by healthy socialization and access to necessities. And I think that if drug use were legalized, the number of people who *use* it won't rise significantly. We'd have to regulate stuff like driving under the influence to fit all those drug categories, or operating heavy machinery, but in the long run... if people want to do this to their bodies, let them?
We have things we agree on and we don't. That's natural, isn't It?
I look forward to seeing a bunch of NYPD cops get slapped with lawsuits when they assert that a female passenger in a cab is a prostitute based on what she is wearing. Forget the cabbie, beware of the passenger!