Title: Human Sex Trafficking — LEB
Headings: Human Sex Trafficking
Human Sex Trafficking
HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING
The Scope
The Operation
NATIONAL PROBLEM WITH LOCAL TIES
The Federal Level
The Local Level
“The United States not only faces an influx of international victims but also has its own homegrown problem of interstate sex trafficking of minors.”
Anytown, USA
“Local and state criminal justice officials must understand that these cases are not isolated incidents that occur infrequently.”
INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING
Strategies
Patrol Officers
Detectives/Investigators
Other Considerations
“Traffickers represent every social, ethnic, and racial group.”
CONCLUSION
Endnotes
“Today, the business of human sex trafficking is much more organized and violent.”

Content: The captives are so afraid and intimidated that they rarely speak out against their traffickers, even when faced with an opportunity to escape. Generally, the traffickers are very organized. Many have a hierarchy system similar to that of other criminal organizations. Traffickers who have more than one victim often have a “bottom,” who sits atop the hierarchy of prostitutes. The bottom, a victim herself, has been with the trafficker the longest and has earned his trust. Bottoms collect the money from the other girls, discipline them, seduce unwitting youths into trafficking, and handle the day-to-day business for the trafficker. Traffickers represent every social, ethnic, and racial group. Various organizational types exist in trafficking. Some perpetrators are involved with local street and motorcycle gangs, others are members of larger nationwide gangs and criminal organizations, and some have no affiliation with any one group or organization. Traffickers are not only men—women run many established rings.