happy birthday...
the streets of downtown chicago were slow tonight but slow still means active. four familiar faces turned around the normal corners and two new faces... young faces. oh and you can't forget running into "one of the good guys", he said, that just wanted "70 cen
ts more for a cold-ass beer"-- at least he's honest. i still didn't have the change. our guys here will tell you don't give money to anybody on the street, they are just asking so they can get drugs or beer. this is true, they would know and its especially true in uptown where you can practically throw a rock and hit a S.S. agency serving at least 1 of 3 hot meals a day. still a piece of me goes out to the honest ones, "one of the good guys".
as for the action downown, i see that suv circle the block five times, and no he's not looking for a parking spot. then, on his 25th birthday, my man "J" gets dropped off by the same suv 20 minutes later. happy birthday...i wonder if watching the men...boys getting picked up and dropped off will get any easier... i hope not.
the cops come in to crack down... on the hustlers that is. one question: why not crack down on the johns too? they are necessary for the transaction. they are taking advantage of these men and boy's vulnerable state. but then again why not crack down on the three white 25 year old males drunk and peeing on the sidewalk? the johns and the peeing exhibitors don't have at least one of two things in common with the hustlers: poor and black.
it is true through, the buyers are much less likely to get arrested. one statistic in Knoxville between July of 1998 and January 2000, KPD filed 36 charges against johns for patronizing prostitutes. during that same time frame, KPD filed 127 charges against alleged prostitutes. that's nearly four times as many, are we saying there are more hustlers than johns... unlikely
another statistic from a FBI crime report says that in 1970, about 20 percent of prostitution arrests throughout the country were men. But by 1998 that percentage had risen to about 42 percent.
i wonder if watching the men...boys getting picked up and dropped off will get any easier... i hope not.
ts more for a cold-ass beer"-- at least he's honest. i still didn't have the change. our guys here will tell you don't give money to anybody on the street, they are just asking so they can get drugs or beer. this is true, they would know and its especially true in uptown where you can practically throw a rock and hit a S.S. agency serving at least 1 of 3 hot meals a day. still a piece of me goes out to the honest ones, "one of the good guys".as for the action downown, i see that suv circle the block five times, and no he's not looking for a parking spot. then, on his 25th birthday, my man "J" gets dropped off by the same suv 20 minutes later. happy birthday...i wonder if watching the men...boys getting picked up and dropped off will get any easier... i hope not.
the cops come in to crack down... on the hustlers that is. one question: why not crack down on the johns too? they are necessary for the transaction. they are taking advantage of these men and boy's vulnerable state. but then again why not crack down on the three white 25 year old males drunk and peeing on the sidewalk? the johns and the peeing exhibitors don't have at least one of two things in common with the hustlers: poor and black.
it is true through, the buyers are much less likely to get arrested. one statistic in Knoxville between July of 1998 and January 2000, KPD filed 36 charges against johns for patronizing prostitutes. during that same time frame, KPD filed 127 charges against alleged prostitutes. that's nearly four times as many, are we saying there are more hustlers than johns... unlikely
another statistic from a FBI crime report says that in 1970, about 20 percent of prostitution arrests throughout the country were men. But by 1998 that percentage had risen to about 42 percent.
i wonder if watching the men...boys getting picked up and dropped off will get any easier... i hope not.
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