I am even wondering about the recently reported pedo busts. Do we have solid evidence these busts have really taken place? Or might some of it be fake news to appease all who are waiting for something to happen?
If anyone looks into the recent busts, theres hardly ANY journalistic follow up. Most of the names, and people busted that are shared are small time, honey pot, sting operations like you'd see on old episodes of Cops and America's most wanted and similar shows. No power players have gone down yet, and I doubt any will. These sort of things are termed 'Limited Hangouts' in the intelligence community. Releases of info, or operations that on the surface look like they're handling the problem, but underneath its just a cover up for the real players. A way to pacify public outrage and to get people to shift their attention onto other things.
I'm not even certain the ones in the US could be strictly categorized as "trafficking". Unlike Haiti's report of 30 kids in a hotel room, no details are given. They talk about adults and a few "minors", which could easily be 16 or 17 year olds. They could just be prostitution stings that they want to over prosecute/over hype by labelling then "trafficking" so the cops can boost their egos/funding. Very hard to tell when there's zero details given.
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TruthTrumps ago
I am even wondering about the recently reported pedo busts. Do we have solid evidence these busts have really taken place? Or might some of it be fake news to appease all who are waiting for something to happen?
Fatsack ago
If anyone looks into the recent busts, theres hardly ANY journalistic follow up. Most of the names, and people busted that are shared are small time, honey pot, sting operations like you'd see on old episodes of Cops and America's most wanted and similar shows. No power players have gone down yet, and I doubt any will. These sort of things are termed 'Limited Hangouts' in the intelligence community. Releases of info, or operations that on the surface look like they're handling the problem, but underneath its just a cover up for the real players. A way to pacify public outrage and to get people to shift their attention onto other things.
EndThePizza ago
I'm not even certain the ones in the US could be strictly categorized as "trafficking". Unlike Haiti's report of 30 kids in a hotel room, no details are given. They talk about adults and a few "minors", which could easily be 16 or 17 year olds. They could just be prostitution stings that they want to over prosecute/over hype by labelling then "trafficking" so the cops can boost their egos/funding. Very hard to tell when there's zero details given.
AreWeSure ago
Prostitution pretty much has been relabelled as trafficking. If a street pimp moves his stable from town to town that is trafficking.
If an independent escort moves to North Dakota because there's an oil boom going on, technically that is considered trafficking.