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nalizing Condoms: How Policing Practices Put Sex Workers at IV Services at Risk in Kenya, Namibia, Russia,South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe (New York: Open Society Foundations, 2012), availableat http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/criminalizing-condoms; PROS Network and LeighTomppert, Public Health Crisis: The Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New YorkCity, (New York: PROS Network and Sex Workers Project, 2012), available at http://sexworkersproject.org/downloads/2012/20120417-public-health-crisis.pdf.74National Black Justice Coalition, Injustice at Every Turn: A Look at Black Respondents to the TransgenderDiscrimination Survey (Washington, DC: National Black Justice Coalition, National Center for TransgenderEquality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2011) available at: http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/BlackTransFactsheetFINAL_090811.pdf.75Andrea Ritchie, “Standing With Duanna Johnson Against Police Brutality,” Left Turn, Issue #32, May2009; “Video Shows Beating at 201 Poplar,” Action News 5, WMC-TV, June 18, 2010, available at: http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=8515744.76Wendi C. Thomas, “Rights Groups Mum on Beating,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 29, 2008. Rev.Dwight Montgomery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), later made astatement that the SCLC was “appalled ... Duanna as an individual, as a human being, has our support.”But, he added, “I certainly don’t condone transgender or homosexuality.”77Mogul, Ritchie, and Whitlock.78Japhy Grant, “Duanna Johnson Murdered ‘Execution-Style’ in Memphis,” Queerty, November 11, 2008.79Princess Harmony Rodriguez, “Whose Lives Matter?: Trans Women of Color and Police Violence,” BlackGirl Dangerous, December 9, 2014.80See, e.g., Beth E. Richie, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (NewYork: NYU Press 2012); Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalizationof LGBT People in the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011); INCITE!, Law EnforcementViolence Against Women of Color and Transgender People of Color: A Critical Intersection of Genderand State Violence - An Organizer’s Toolkit (Burbank, CA: INCITE!, 2008), available at: http://www.incitenational.org/sites/default/files/incite_files/resource_docs/3696_toolkit-final.pdf.81The Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, 2010 Annual Report, (Washington,DC: Cato Institute, 2010), available at http://www.policemisconduct.net/statistics/2010-annual-report/.82Ibid.83A 2014 study from Bowling Green State University found that in known cases, 99.1 percent of law enforcement<strong>officer</strong>s who commit sexual assault are men, and 92.1 percent of victims are women. For moreinformation, see: Philip Matthew Stinson, John Liederbach, Steven L. Brewer, and Brooke E. Mathna, “PoliceSexual Misconduct A National Scale Study of Arrested Officers.” Criminal Justice Policy Review (2014),doi 0887403414526231.43

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