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The Freakonomics blog mentions a web site where the Chicago Police Department posts photographs of men arrested for soliticing prostitutes.

The point of the site is to embarrass these patrons in a way that simply fining or compounding their cars will not. A glance at some of the photos gives a strange sense of the pathetic.

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What was this man thinking?

Freakonomics calculates that if you use official police statistics, there are four incidents of prostitution per year for every adult male in Chicago -- a number which they argue seems awfully high.