It has been suggested that the police, whose headquarters are located right next to The Block, chose to contain the prostitution and drug dealing in that small section of Baltimore rather than combat it.
This figure, cited in the book Pedophiles and Priests by non-Catholic scholar, Philip Jenkins, is from the most comprehensive study to date, which found that only one out of 2,252 priests considered over a thirty-year period was afflicted with pedophilia.
The investigation by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Unit into the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in north London followed four complaints by outraged visitors who claimed the colour pictures were indecent and obscene.