image via Henry Couch’s Night Dreams Revisited, part 1

I’m not sure which is crazier: that NYC cops have been arresting homos on unconstitutional charges for over 20 years, or that an anti-cruising law existed in the first place. New York’s high court declared the anti-cruising law unconstitutional in 1983, but cops have used the defunct statute to arrest thousands of people and charge tens of thousands in fines, Slate reports. The most recent arrest for anti-cruising was as recent as last month.

One man got arrested because he chatted up a plainclothes officer and suggested that they retire back to his place for some hee-haw. And Gay City News reports that another man was hanging out in the park when a plainclothes officer asked him what he was doing. “You know what I’m doing here,” the man responded. “I’m here to meet guys.” He got arrested too, before he even had a chance to whip his dick out.

New York City cops: first it’s entrapment, and now it’s this. What’s most fucked up is that most men that the cops target are likely too embarrassed to come forward, so the arrests amount to an intimidation tactic, and many other people who are arrested or fined have no idea that the law has been striken down. Basically, police officers are sadistic assholes, which is hot unless they’re arresting you.

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New York cops are arresting people on unconstitutional charges (Slate)