Reply #38: did you read the comments section? I found this, which, if true, indicates that it is cops on their [View All]

[niyad]

own doing this--not an actual law:

lazlototh | Saturday January 9, 2010 12:15 am 7
Umm, as much as I hate to ruin a good moral panic… By calling it “a move” and “is considered proof,” your phrasing implies that this is an explicit policy decision.

But in the article you link to from the Womensrights blog, it merely says “And they’ve been accused of using carrying three or more condoms as proof of intent to sell sex.” And if you follow that to the RH Reality Check blog, it only says that arrests based on carrying multiple condoms is “not uncommon,” and that “anecdotal evidence suggests” you can be arrested for having three or more.

I skimmed the entire Move Along Report PDF and also searched on the term “condom.” There is NOTHING about any formal policy that treats the carrying of protection as legal evidence of prostitution. As far as I can see, there are only reports of cops making arrests, on their own, on that basis.

That’s still an abusive, anti-woman, and socially harmful practice. I’m not arguing against that for a second. But I’m already seeing people on sites like Reddit and Digg talking as if Washington DC passed a *law* saying women can be arrested for having three or more condoms, that it’s part of this Prostitution-Free Zone program, and that ordinary women are somehow in grave danger of being arrested there purely on the basis of carrying a bunch of condoms in their purse.
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http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2010/01/07/once-twice-three-times-a-lady-of-the-night-dc-cops-can-arrest-you-for-carrying-more-than-two-condoms/