At one point, Barnett, the longtime activist and crime fighter whose Stop the Killing Crusade was at the time funded with city money, was actively encouraging police to do more to stop prostitution with sting operations on the West Side. That was before he was caught soliciting an undercover vice officer. Barnett still maintains he wasn’t seriously trying to hook up with a prostitute, but was merely testing out the effectiveness of the police operation. O-ka-a-a-y. Yeah, we believe that. Don’t you?
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2004.
