Sherman SG, Nestadt DF, Silberzahn BE, et al. - Many harms caused by police to street-based female sex workers (FSWs) have been documented in research. Little attention has been paid to the harm caused by police as clients. Researchers here investigated this interaction in a 12-month longitudinal cohort study of street-based FSWs in Baltimore, MD. The multivariate model revealed following factors to be independently linked with recent police clients: recent arrest, coerced or forced sex by police, higher number of egregious police practices experienced, and prevalent STI infection. Per observations, the police-as-client association is suggested as a form of “everyday violence,” which both normalizes and legitimizes police power and structural violence. In addition to the urgent requirement for decriminalization of sex work and STI prevention programs tailored for this complex population, they emphasize undertaking prompt investigation and harsher penalties for police officers who engage in sex with FSW tp shift police culture away from abuse.