Hyde Park Bullshit

A "study" in which the subjects have arrest sheets twice as long as we are tall:

• Researchers have concluded in a yet to be published study of the economics of prostitution in Chicago that the women were forced to service police officers, worked more on holidays and varied pricing based on race.

  University of Chicago professor and ''Freakonomics'' author Steven D. Levitt and sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh of Columbia University are the authors of the two-year study of street-level prostitution in Chicago's Roseland, Washington Park and Pullman neighborhoods.

  [...] Prostitutes taking part in the study -- who were paid $150 a week -- reported that about 3 percent of the sex acts they performed were ''freebies'' given to Chicago police officers to avoid arrest.
  
  Police spokeswoman Monique Bond did not respond to requests for comment on the study's finding.

Refusing to comment was probably the first bright thing Skeletor has done during her tenure as spokesperson. Most likely she couldn't think of anything to say.

The study's "co-author" was the subject of yesterday's Sun Times feature on the booming dope trade in the area surrounding the U of C where he claims to sat in on numerous high level gang meetings, some of which involved members of the CPD.

Does it never end?