67.8%; 0.053) were more prevalent among FSWs with police as clients, but the difference fell short of significance.
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The Role of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Police as Clients Among Street-Based Female Sex Workers in Baltimore City.
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Although we found a highly significant association between STI and having police as clients, STI was not the “outcome” in our multivariate model, so all we can conclude is that prevalent STI infection is associated with police as clients, not that the latter is a cause of the former.
Study results are hugely significant in that they provide evidence that the police-as-client relation is common, an important marker for broader police abuse of power aided by a situational context of criminalization and associated with prevalent STIs.