According to this page on the FBI website, in 2015 there has been 652 arrests related to human trafficking. The page shows per-state totals only, so I had to do the sum manually.
These two organizations combined made 2052 arrests related to human trafficking in a full year. And here in 2017 we are at a rate of 1500 arrests per month! That seems unusual.
You're not doing an apples to apples comparison, because the busts in the list are mostly state and city busts, not FBI and not ICE.
A good portion of the stories listed above come from a multistate operation now it's 13th year, called the National Johns Initiative. And I think some double counting is going on, because some stories carry the national total and some local stories only focus on local arrests.
The California bust is not new either, it's been done for 4 years running to coincide with the end of January which is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Feb 1 is considered Freedom Day. Haven't heard of that? It's been going on by Presidential Proclamation since 2013.
https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2013/01/07/national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month
So you would need to check prior years to establish your baseline to see if this a vast increase, but a lot of these operations precede the inauguration by years and involve mostly local law enforecement, not federal.
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formatist ago
Can anyone bring this into perspective? I know FBI does raids like this every year - is this bigger than usual?
newworldahead ago
According to this page on the FBI website, in 2015 there has been 652 arrests related to human trafficking. The page shows per-state totals only, so I had to do the sum manually.
In the same period (2015), ICE has arrested 1400 human traffickers. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-more-1400-human-traffickers-2015-identifies-nearly-400-victims-across-us
These two organizations combined made 2052 arrests related to human trafficking in a full year. And here in 2017 we are at a rate of 1500 arrests per month! That seems unusual.
AreWeSure ago
You're not doing an apples to apples comparison, because the busts in the list are mostly state and city busts, not FBI and not ICE.
A good portion of the stories listed above come from a multistate operation now it's 13th year, called the National Johns Initiative. And I think some double counting is going on, because some stories carry the national total and some local stories only focus on local arrests.
The California bust is not new either, it's been done for 4 years running to coincide with the end of January which is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Feb 1 is considered Freedom Day. Haven't heard of that? It's been going on by Presidential Proclamation since 2013. https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2013/01/07/national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month
So you would need to check prior years to establish your baseline to see if this a vast increase, but a lot of these operations precede the inauguration by years and involve mostly local law enforecement, not federal.