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"Rather than being taken to jail, sex workers apprehended on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona are being handcuffed and brought to a church, where they can decide if they would rather be incarcerated by the state or undergo diversion therapy.
The policy, known as Project ROSE, is a Phoenix program that, according to Vice News, has aimed to help more than 350 people since it began in 2011.
Police sweep the streets and browse the internet searching for prostitution listings. They may catch dozens of women during any given sting operation but, instead of hauling them into jail, the police handcuff them and bring them to the Arizona State School of Social Work.""* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)But I guess if the townsfolk don't speak up against it...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)To clear up several glaring inaccuracies in the OP
[link:http:// http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/11/14/project-rose-prostitutesjail.html|
delrem
(9,688 posts)oh, it stinks to high heaven.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Program that enables women to interface with government programs to better their lives.....
What is bad about that? It doesn't sound any different than other diversions programs.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Employers have chapels in the workplace and force their workers to worship in them
The religious right has so much in common with Putin. They love him
Religion = Death to America by A-Holes
delrem
(9,688 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 13, 2014, 10:03 AM - Edit history (1)
FFS...you think it's ok for an employer to force employees to go to church? Wow...FFS indeed
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delrem
(9,688 posts)Because a gratuitous slap at Russia (nice timing!) introduces a red-herring singing a jingoist's favourite tune?
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)My comment is perfectly appropriate ...FFS. Russia deserves to be slapped..FFS
"favourite" tune? you're not American ?...FFS
delrem
(9,688 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Don't see those every day on a Dem site. Those are found on Freak Republic. You must be lost FFS
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Your kindred spirit. He loves Putin too
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4652171
siligut
(12,272 posts)This cocktail may be why sex trafficking, as opposed to trafficking in maids or construction workers or farm labor, is always a fashionable cause.
http://www.vice.com/read/in-arizona-project-rose-is-arresting-sex-workers-to-save-them
Plus, you really can't call it charity when you are getting paid $1,500/day to do it.
Use the money to house the homeless and feed the hungry.
Well said,siligut.
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)And funnel the money to a regressive social organization. Oh, maybe we aren't trying to solve problems but go back in time to when women did not have any choice and were shamed about what they had to do to get by. Legalize prostitution. Maybe we should be dragging the johns to the church and Sex Addicts Anon.
Oh and yeah, TAX RELIGION, END THE FREE RIDE ON THE GRAVY TRAIN OF HYPOCRISY.