Cops and Hookers: Perks of the job

[Just Passin' By]

Combining data on police arrests from the Chicago Police Department and the results of the authors’ own survey, the study estimates that prostitutes are arrested only once in every 450 tricks, but only one in ten of these arrests will lead to a prison sentence. Johns are arrested even less frequently, with only one john arrested for every 1,200 tricks.

But perhaps more striking is the rate at which a police officer can extort free sex from a prostitute. Levitt and Venkatesh found that about one in 30 tricks performed by a prostitute is a freebie to the police in return for avoiding arrest. In other words, a prostitute is more likely to have sex with an on-duty police officer than to be arrested by one.

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/apr09/4.aspx

[CrazyPhuD]

Sure unless they cock it up and get caught on camera doing it. Then they are fucked.

[BigMeatballDave]

Prostitution should be completely legal anyway.

[chasedude]

Prostitution should be completely legal anyway.

It's the oldest profession known and still the most taboo, irony.

[Rain Man]

Prostitution should be completely legal anyway.

You always hear those complaints about women earning 59 cents for every man's dollar. Well, legalize prostitution and the whole equation would reverse. Every woman in America would be driving a Mercedes and jetting to Ibiza for the summer.

[listopencil]

You always hear those complaints about women earning 59 cents for every man's dollar. Well, legalize prostitution and the whole equation would reverse. Every woman in America would be driving a Mercedes and jetting to Ibiza for the summer.

Supply and demand.

[ModSocks]

You always hear those complaints about women earning 59 cents for every man's dollar. Well, legalize prostitution and the whole equation would reverse. Every woman in America would be driving a Mercedes and jetting to Ibiza for the summer.

Precisely why it shouldn't be legalized.

Gotta keep the White/Black/Yellow/whatthefuckever woman down.

[CoMoChief]

CPD is one of the worst corrupt depts in the country....this comes as no surprise to me.

[patteeu]

Precisely why it shouldn't be legalized.

Gotta keep the White/Black/Yellow/whatthe****ever woman down.

Uh, that's the goal of the pro-legalization crowd.

[Rain Man]

Uh, that's the goal of the pro-legalization crowd.

Sometimes you have to go down to go up.

[fan4ever]

You always hear those complaints about women earning 59 cents for every man's dollar. Well, legalize prostitution and the whole equation would reverse. Every woman in America would be driving a Mercedes and jetting to Ibiza for the summer.

...not EVERY woman...

[CrazyPhuD]

You always hear those complaints about women earning 59 cents for every man's dollar. Well, legalize prostitution and the whole equation would reverse. Every woman in America would be driving a Mercedes and jetting to Ibiza for the summer.

Yes but then what would it do for marriage rates? Why buy the cow when you can pay for her to leave?

[SenselessChiefsFan]

It's the oldest profession known and still the most taboo, irony.

Only if the prostitute works for the IRS.

[lcarus]

You take a girl out and buy her dinner and a movie, and if she blows you...she would not have done anything sexual without the dinner and movie. Some girls won't stay/enter in relationships if the financial situation isn't good. What's the difference? A lot of wives are full time prostitutes with one exclusive client...her husband.

[Backwards Masking]

A lot of wives are full time prostitutes with one exclusive client...her husband.

This. If they don't have kids, the full timer's chosen "Profession" is called a "Homemaker". If they have kids, they use the term "Stay At Home Mommy."

[threebag]

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKhhMLlGJOEOPhoJf57ugWBITh424_j9hFbKG9jp_y9Xtk6iXgPg

Between that and marijuana legalization the tax money would mean a budget surplus.