"I gave up drugs to get out of red light zone - it was too dangerous"

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Full page in Daily Telegraph today. Shortened on line version here

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/21/gave-drugs-get-managed-red-light-zone-dangerous/

It's on the slip page so may not be in all editions and is a Special Report by the Home Affairs editor and Julie Bindel

Another article exploding the myth of prostitution as a free choice that is sometimes promulgated by escorts.

Her biggest criticism of the managed zone is the failure to offer women a route out of a world where drugs are rife. “All the girls are down there because they’re dependent on drugs. I don’t believe it’s their choice to do it,” she says. “The key is to stop the drug use and it will stop the girls having to work for drugs.”

A spokesman for Safer Leeds said the zone had led to an increase in prostitutes reporting crimes to police with some landmark convictions of offenders who would otherwise not have been brought to justice.

Why is it that comments from spokesmen always seem to fail to address the point? Is it possibly because they're too busy speaking to listen? Or that it's someone else's job to listen and they are only engaged in reputation management?