GOP Rep. Malliotakis slams Dems over NYC’s rampant street prostitution: ‘Their idea of job creation?’

A Republican congresswoman slammed New York’s Democratic leadership Friday following a newspaper’s report about seemingly rampant street prostitution in the city’s Brooklyn borough.

Malliotakis was referring to a change in policy earlier this year, in which city cops were advised to no longer arrest people who appeared to be loitering for the purpose of prostitution. The directive followed a repeal of a decades-old New York state law that critics argued was discriminatory against women, minorities and transgender people, the Post reported. She was also reacting to a Twitter post from New York state Assemblyman Mike Tannousis, a Brooklyn Republican who wrote that he opposed repealing New York state's "loitering for prostitution" law – fearing that the result would be more street prostitution.