“Reflexive criminalization of Black women… heighten[s] the perception that they are threatening, foreclosing the possibility in police officers' minds that they are simply survivors of violence… Police responses… all too often result in further…violence against them”
“Possession … of condoms as evidence of intent to engage in prostitution-related offenses… disparately affects women of color and … LGBTQ people of color who are disproportionately stopped and searched by police and routinely profiled as being engaged in prostitution."
“The targets of reported police sexual violence are overwhelmingly women, and typically women of color who are or are perceived to be involved in the drug or sex trades, or using drugs or alcohol."