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Study: 3% of tricks by sex workers without pimps are 'freebies given to police'

By Gritsforbreakfast

The national hoo-ha over New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal has inevitably generated renewed debate in the blogosphere regarding the oldest profession. Doc Berman points to an academic paper studying prostitution in Chicago (pdf) that found:There is a surprisingly high prevalence of police officers demanding sex from prostitutes in return for avoiding arrest. For prostitutes who do not work with pimps (and thus are working the streets), roughly three percent of all their tricks are freebies given to police.That statistic reminds me of a post about snitching on Grits in 2005, where an officer accused of having sex with prostitutes who were his confidential informants said that relationships as police snitches "are what keep escort services in business...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).