For Prostitutes, Is Murder an Occupational Hazard?

[Shana A]

For Prostitutes, Is Murder an Occupational Hazard?

— By Titania Kumeh
| Fri Mar. 18, 2011 5:00 PM PDT

http://motherjones.com/mixed-media/2011/03/what-makes-prostitute

As MoJo reporter Mac McClelland pointed out earlier this week, murdered prostitutes don't often make the news these days. When they do, their deaths may be dismissed as more occupational hazard than crime. Here, for example, is how St. Francis County sheriff Bobby May explained the fatal shooting of trans prostitute 25-year-old Marcal Camero Tye: "You know, prostitutes, these types of folks—it's a risk. Whenever you're soliciting, things of this nature happen sometimes." Translation: If Tye hadn't been trans and/or a prostitute, the murder would have most likely never happened. But why is it so easy to deny a prostitute's right to safety?

[Janet_Girl]

As some Dicks who work as officers would say "NHI".   No Humans Involved.  Any one who works in other than honorable professions, are not considered to by real humans.

[justmeinoz]

A crime is a crime as far as I'm concerned. 
In my experience as a member of the Police Force here,  sex workers were always treated as a normal victim of a crime, unless they were known to be involved in heavy crime themselves. It was understood they quite often didn't have a lot of alternatives.
The St.Francis County Sherriffs Dept shows a deplorable lack of professionalism and an excess of incompetence  in my book.