Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States A Guide for the Legal Sector (2014) / Chapter Skim
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3 How Law Enforcement Professionals Can Help
3 How Law Enforcement Professionals Can Help
Pages 13-18
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It should be noted that several of the law enforcement approaches described here apply to human trafficking broadly and are not specific to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors. Note also that while participation in task forces is one of the approaches discussed in this section, multisector and interagency task forces are covered in greater detail in Section 6.
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Challenges One challenge entailed in an appropriate law enforcement response to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors is that, as noted in Section 1, law enforcement professionals can find it challenging to view behavior by youth that is technically criminal (prostitution) as part of the victimization of youth by the perpetrators of a more serious crime (commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking)
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Finally, state and local law enforcement agencies can use several approaches to intervene with perpetrators of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors and gather corroborative evidence for criminal cases so as to minimize the reliance on victims' cooperation and testimony. Investigations undertaken by the Boston Police Department's Human Trafficking Unit, for example, focus on holding the buyers of sex accountable by conducting undercover stings and by reaching out to hotels where commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors are taking place [5]
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FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT APPROACHES "Federal agencies typically involve state and local law enforcement professionals in their investigations and task forces with the goal of building stronger cases at those levels as well." Although only 9 percent of law enforcement agencies in the United States operate at the federal level, a considerable amount of activity related to the commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors takes place at
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FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/cac/crimes_against_children Innocence Lost National Initiative Innocence Lost is a national initiative launched by the FBI in 2003. Working together with the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, this initiative specifically addresses domestic sex trafficking of minors in the United States through 47 dedicated task forces and working groups that meet regularly and share information [29]
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. The ICAC Task Forces' technical expertise, well-established collaborative multijurisdictional partnerships, and avail ability to a large number of state and local agencies are advantages that within the constraints of available funding present opportunities for increasing the success of law enforcement throughout the United States in addressing the commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors.
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