Sex Trafficking

McKenna Metz

Thesis Statement:

Sex trafficking is a national and international problem that should

be prevented by educating the public and increasing the police and FBI awareness and task force

What is sex trafficking??

• Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that not only happens in other countries, but also in the United States. Sex trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, or harboring of persons through threat, use of force, or other coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

What about those pimps….

The biggest marketing tool that pimps use is media. They are glamorized on TV shows, movies, and music videos. Pimps use the weaknesses of their victims and prey on that.

Pimps Cont.

• The Polaris Project did the math on how much a pimp makes a year and its outrageous! At the end of the year, a pimp can make around $300,000 tax free, since this job is kept under the table.

FBI

• The FBI is becoming more and more involved with this operation to help stop it. They do undercover sting operations, and they train for what to do when they encounter a situation.

The Blue Campaign

• Started by the US Department of Homeland Security

• Help prevent this problem through public awareness, training, victim assistance, and law enforcement investigations

Education About This Problem

• Different forms of educating the public on this issue:

- Public Service Announcements

- Public Speakers, such as Jillian Mourning

- Brochures/pamplets on the topic and ways to prevent yourself from getting stuck in that situation

- Billboards

All We Want is Love

• All We Want Is LOVE aims to fight the injustice of modern day slavery through education and liberation.

• We want to rid the response of “I didn’t know” to the question of modern day slavery, especially in the United States.

LOVE 146

• Love 146 is working to prevent child trafficking

• This group takes care of the survivors, educate the victims and society, and train professionals

Super Bowl

• The Super Bowl is one of the largest human trafficking ring in the US

• Many of the pimps and victims go unnoticed because there are so many people there

• Many cops and FBI agents go undercover at this event and try and catch the people involved

• This past Super Bowl, XLIX, there were at least 570 “Johns” buying the women and 23 pimps