Has anyone else seen this article?
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/c...-place-orders/
Here are excerpts:
“ With COVID-19’s closures of nonessential businesses, many trafficking enterprises are violating those restrictions. These venues of sex and labor trafficking operate behind the façade of a commercial front business — like illicit massage venues used as a cover for sex trafficking.They work with cash transactions and engage in various types of financial crimes and fraud, including underreporting their annual income, paying lower taxes and lower insurance premiums and violating sales tax laws in their pricing and advertising. They already operate below the radar, and it is no different during COVID-19.”
“ Massage parlor trafficking is an insidious form of trafficking that has been incredibly organized and difficult to eradicate across the nation. The most prolific buyers do not care about public health concerns like communicable disease, and traffickers do not care about the health and safety of their victims.
As buyers and traffickers adapt to changing times, so must our enforcement efforts — and that starts with monitoring their behavior and holding them accountable.
Rochelle Keyhan is an attorney and chief executive of Collective Liberty, an organization that gathers data to help police departments better prosecute traffickers. She wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News.”