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.”

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Ms. Walker-Rodriguez is an assistant state’s attorney in Baltimore County and a current member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force. Mr. Hill, a retired police lieutenant, is an assistant state’s attorney in Baltimore County and a current member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force. The Operation
Today, the business of human sex trafficking is much more organized and violent. These women and young girls are sold to traffickers, locked up in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized, and raped repeatedly. 10 These continual abuses make it easier for the traffickers to control their victims. 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.