“I have seen sex workers all of my life,” Jessica Ramos declared. “I have seen them denigrated by neighbors. The answer is always, call the police to fix this. Police do not fix anything.” She was speaking at a February 25 rally in Foley Square, New York, in front of 150 sex workers and supporters. This might seem like a small event, one of perhaps thousands of protests that take place every year in this city of ten million people, but it represented a radical break with the past. For Ramos is a state senator, and this spring, along with her colleague, Senator Julia Salazar, she promised to introduce a bill to decriminalize the sex trade in New York. 
Source : ‘Whores But Organized’: Sex Workers Rally for Reform
