I'm really tired of the growing trend of law enforcement agencies busting people involved in lower-level prostitution (johns, prostitutes, pimps), slapping an unearned label of "trafficking" on there, and saying "Hurr durr, looks like we did something about (human|sex|child) trafficking!".
All they did was entrap johns online and punish the prostitutes, while the uninformed public will eat it up thinking that something is being done about trafficking. This, at least what I can gather from the article, are not the arrests we need in order to effectively dismantle trafficking networks.
That's some elementary pimping. Sleazy, illegal, underage teenagers, yes. However:
It doesn't even put a dent in the cartels and coyotes that smuggle children to the US for sex, nor does it do anything about the shipping containers of people brought in by mafias. Or the hundreds of thousands of missing children that disappear. You know, actual trafficking networks and not just greasy pimps pushing high school tail (which is still wrong, just not an actual trafficking network)
Yea, I mean, they still are police. They do have to do something. They're not all sitting in a big room twiddling their thumbs all day. They have to appear to be doing something for the public, but yet still staying out of the way of the elite.
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wincraft71 ago
I'm really tired of the growing trend of law enforcement agencies busting people involved in lower-level prostitution (johns, prostitutes, pimps), slapping an unearned label of "trafficking" on there, and saying "Hurr durr, looks like we did something about (human|sex|child) trafficking!".
All they did was entrap johns online and punish the prostitutes, while the uninformed public will eat it up thinking that something is being done about trafficking. This, at least what I can gather from the article, are not the arrests we need in order to effectively dismantle trafficking networks.
3141592653 ago
Read the second article too. And this human trafficking ring busted
wincraft71 ago
That's some elementary pimping. Sleazy, illegal, underage teenagers, yes. However:
It doesn't even put a dent in the cartels and coyotes that smuggle children to the US for sex, nor does it do anything about the shipping containers of people brought in by mafias. Or the hundreds of thousands of missing children that disappear. You know, actual trafficking networks and not just greasy pimps pushing high school tail (which is still wrong, just not an actual trafficking network)
Cigarette5mokingman ago
+1 up voat for critical thinking.
wincraft71 ago
fist bump
The next question is why are they pushing these sort of busts so hard? It's a smoke screen to keep the population at bay, I say.
Cigarette5mokingman ago
Yea, I mean, they still are police. They do have to do something. They're not all sitting in a big room twiddling their thumbs all day. They have to appear to be doing something for the public, but yet still staying out of the way of the elite.